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...straight adventure the picture is good. Paramount's standard conception of a mad seacaptain becomes something very far from stock in Howard da Silva's fine, complex, pent-up performance. William Bendix is real and frightening as his brutal and devoted first mate, and Brian Donlevy is resolute and sympathetic whenever he has a chance. Alan Ladd suffers, fights and makes up to womankind with his usual chilly proficiency and Barry Fitzgerald scuttles obscurely around in the galley, making all he can of his few lines...
France faces a complex problem, which in turn has its bases in many factors including French manpower losses in the two wars, the prolonged German occupation, and the Latin temperament. The latter factor in large part contributes to the French failure to set up a long range, planned program of recovery calling for patience and deliberation along British lines. The difference is obvious in the conversation of the people. In England one talks about the difficulty of obtaining enough with the limited ration coupons allowed the individual. In France, one talks about the difficulty in obtaining enough money...
...Professor Leo P. Crespi thinks, as his letter (TIME, Aug. 5) seems to indicate, that the human animal differs from other animals, notably the donkey, because of $50,000-a-year businessmen who become $15,000-a-year college presidents, then no donkey need suffer an inferiority complex. I've met a few college presidents in my day; and all those who were, or ever could be, $50,000-a-year businessmen, you could list on the end of a carrot-the small...
...Movies-with-sound, using a complex mixture of inventions by Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas A. Edison, Lee de Forest and others, are now some 57 years...
Sylvia (pouting provocatively): "You're a practical man who understands the complex business of winning elections. I'm a woman who wants to be the next governor of this state. With what you know . . . and what I have to offer . . . we'd be a pretty hard combination to beat...