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Also the sheriff doesn't fight, which would be just about unbearable but for a magnificent five-minute elbows-and-fingernails brawl between Frenchie and her rival for his affections...
Drew Pearson's fight with Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy started out as a private brawl. But last week, after Adam Hats had announced that it was not renewing its contract as Pearson's radio sponsor, newsmen from all over the nation jumped in. The big gun on McCarthy's side was Westbrook Pegler, who has long been in & out of libel suits with Pearson himself. Said Pegler of his longtime foe: "That lying blackguard is my man, just as Harold Ickes was in his time. Santa Claus brought him to me. Pearson is a liar...
...movie that now breaks the suspense is a chase-melodrama with little suspense of its own. Faith plays a passionate hussy who gets her hooks into a remarkably gullible physician (Robert Mitchum). She involves him in a drunken brawl that kills her husband (Claude Rains), then prods him into fleeing with her across the Mexican border. Dazed by a concussion, Dr. Mitchum goes on compounding the crime long after it becomes obvious that Faith is a fugitive from a psychiatrist's couch...
...true that, besides the fair share of man-made sin among his parishioners, Don Camillo had a massive irritation to contend with. Peppone, the Communist mayor, was the sworn enemy of the church and kept up a running brawl with the priest. Peppone, a tough and able Communist who hadn't made his confession since 1918, set up trials for Don Camillo that ranged from swiping his clothes while he was in swimming to a clout on the head with a heavy stick...
...France. When Victor Kravchenko published the bestselling story of his career as a onetime Soviet bureaucrat, I Chose Freedom, a French Communist weekly called him a "liar" and a U.S. secret agent. Kravchenko sued for libel, and in a Parisian courtroom whose atmosphere often resembled a low-comedy brawl there was, nonetheless, enacted a deadly serious debate between the ideologies of two worlds. Largely because of impressive testimony given by a number of former inmates of Russian slave-labor camps, Kravchenko won his case and token damages of 3 francs. His second book, though ineptly written and frequently too discursive...