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...convincing look of reality. Best atmospheric touches: Peter's grubby home; the grey, frayed hopelessness of his hard-working parents (admirably played by Thelma Ritter and Luis Van Rooten); the dank, underground goings-on in the Dukes' basement club; the bits & pieces of broken-down humanity that cluster like flies around Selma's sidewalk soda stand. Especially good are the close-up studies of gratuitous violence: in the poolroom the Dukes brutally beat up a couple of outsiders; in the school manual training class the kids (armed with the crude guns they have been secretly making...
Empire Abuilding. In the past three years, McCarthy has galloped off in all directions. He bought a radio station, a cluster of throwaway newspapers, a Detroit steel plant (to get pipe), export and import companies, a chemical firm...
Fifty years ago, in the days of bloomers and tin bath tube, Radcliffe cheered the addition of a permanent brick gymnasium to the cluster of building up Garden Street. Mrs. Augustus Hemenway, wife of the donor of the University's Hemenway gymnasium dedicated the now structure in June...
Christliches Jugenddorf Adelheide-the Christian Youth Village of Adelheide-is the name lettered on the big roadside sign outside the cluster of 20-odd two-story buildings near Bremen, in Germany's British zone. Adelheide was built to be one of the biggest Luftwaffe bases in northern Germany. At war's end it became first a D.P. camp, then (with the addition of barbed wire) an internment center for Gestapo-men and Nazis awaiting trial...
...hotel, swarms of workmen sweated under floodlights to turn the Grand Ballroom into the fanciest automobile showroom on earth. On a wide stage, they set up an endless chain conveyor and a revolving platform for the new models; across the room, they reared a 25-ft. pylon above a cluster of jewel-bright auto engines...