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...police (George Raft) discover that the girl did not commit suicide-she was murdered. Furthermore, she was pregnant. Things look bad for the producer. However, there is still the couple upstairs to be considered (Ginger Rogers and Reginald Gardiner) and the boy friend down in the Village (Skip Homeier). Producer Johnson manages very cleverly to keep all these oranges in the air until the next-to-last scene...
Ounce of Prevention. In Manila, P.I., arrested on 24 assorted charges of robbery, Amado Manlapaz complained to Judge Bienvenido Tan: "If I had been arrested earlier, I never would have had the chance to commit so many crimes...
...never be an effective agency for keeping the peace unless the veto is completely abolished. Only then could instant collective action against an aggressor be taken on a world-wide scale. In theory, this is true. But today, at least, there simply is no great power which would commit its forces to action anywhere in the world if such action clashed directly with its national interests. In this country, for instance, a revision of the UN Charter would need Senate approval like any other treaty. And a body which almost passed the Bricker Amendment would never conceivably ratify an agreement...
...Contrary to the CRIMSON report, the Committee cannot commit itself in advance to cover any University bills defaulted because of charity donations. We have never claimed this power...
Britain saw in the seeming Franco-German contradiction hope of a workable plan which would involve Britain more surely than EDC (through Britain's role as a Brussels partner) and also commit the U.S. more emphatically (through the NATO all-for-one agreement). Mendès-France seemed to be insisting on controls unacceptable to Germany. Adenauer's demands for all-at-once concessions were unacceptable to an aroused France. But neither, in Anthony Eden's view, had closed the door. He calculated optimistically-but perhaps not too much so-that theirs were bargaining terms, not final...