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...Ernest Hemingway created a stripped, hard-boiled prose for telling terse, hard-boiled stories about broken-down bullfighters, ham prizefighters, gallant trollops, homosexuals, mugs, spiritual victims of the war. "The lost generation" quickly turned his books into bestsellers, tried to talk like Hemingway characters as they sipped raw alcohol in speakeasies, tried to write Hemingway stories in garrets and penthouses. None wrote as well...
...Morris Carnovsky could not be better. It is hard to single out any of the supporting cast for more praise than the others. Each of Odets's "scenes within-a-scene," like the drunk walking his dog in the park, bring out brilliant little characters. Roman Bohnen as the broken-down hotel clerk, Phil Loeb as the detective's brother-in-law, and Sandford Mesinger as the Hollywood magnate stand out particularly...
...reported to be interested. They picked Red Rolfe right off the Hanover campus, and in time the amazingly well coordinated Broberg may be ready for his chance. It was he who parked one of the first pitches Tom Healey ever threw to him for a home run into some broken-down bleachers at Dartmouth last spring...
...Russian Army into conquered Poland, in which correspondents, ostensibly praising the Army, declared it had reached that high degree of technical proficiency achieved by the armies in the U. S. Civil War. Of its mechanized might, they said trucks were numerous-so numerous that seldom had so much broken-down machinery been blamed on bad roads. Scorn snowed through stories of impossible Chinese peace proposals from Chungking, in stories of the suppression of the French Communist Party, no less than in the mysterious report that Adolf Hitler might put an abrupt and disconcerting end to the Stop Hitler movement...
...industrial areas and roughly half the population of what was Poland, but gives up the common frontier she sought with Rumania as a source of oil. The Soviet Union for the first time gets a frontier with East Prussia and with Hungary, which hurriedly last week patched up its broken-down diplomatic relations between Budapest and Moscow by appointing a new minister to Moscow...