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...plain as Violet Attlee's red straw hat against the brown-&-black background of the Bournemouth Pavilion stage. The 1,179 Labor Party delegates to the 45th annual party conference had gathered last week to ratify policy, not to make...
Such is the background to the current trials at Bad Nauheim, Germany, where Kilian, several lower ranking officers, and enlisted guards are on trial for alleged mistreatment of GI prisoners. Sergeant Judson Smith, chief non-commissioned officer at the guardhouse, received three years at hard labor and a dishonorable discharge. Other enlisted men are serving prison sentences of lesser length. And last week a first lieutenant, first officer to be tried and the man alleged to have ordered the beatings, heard his sentence-admonition and a fine of $250, or approximately one month...
George R. Kelly '44 of Norwood carried off one of the Democratic nominations for State Representative in the Seventh Norfolk District according to Schedule, leaving him the prospect of swinging a normally Republican electorate with his Irish-veteran-Harvard background...
Some Lever Bros. products were needed for background "scrap." We sent a researcher out to buy some. After visiting 16 stores she came steaming back to announce that only a few of the soap, oil, fat, etc. products we wanted were available, and didn't we know there was a shortage on. Luckman saved the day by sending us a boxful of the hard-to-get items. They're all gone now. After Artzybasheff had his pick, staff members hijacked what was left...
...Stranger's details-a tight script, murky lighting, feverish camera angles, brooding background music-are deftly synchronized to the prevailing mood of uneasiness. All of the acting is well above par. There is hardly a trace of Little Caesar in Edward G. Robinson's implacable G-man. Loretta Young is just right as the harassed, threatened bride. Oldtime Vaudevillian Billy House earns some much-needed laughs as the village druggist. And Actor Welles, even though Director Welles has used too much film on shots of the petulant Welles scowl, is a convincing menace who richly deserves hissing...