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When ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman took on his big job last April, he promised that ECA would be run on a streamlined, businesslike basis. Last week he took a long step toward making that promise come true. Over the protests of offended career bureaucrats, he gave Comptroller Eric L. Kohler the go-ahead for a tough, continuous financial checkup...
...When both copies were finally signed, our small party walked down the wide, deserted, battle-shattered street, one side of it small shops, the other the high, massive south wall of the Old City, into the Jewish quarter. I half expected to encounter Eric Gibbs, but he was at Haganah headquarters in the New City of Jerusalem awaiting the unusually heavy Jewish attack on four of the Old City's gates which opened up as night fell...
Sudden Change. In Tel Aviv, the air raids continued. At first, Tel Avivians had looked on the sporadic Egyptian air raids as a mildly exciting diversion. "But one afternoon last week," cabled TIME Correspondent Eric Gibbs from Tel Aviv, "that attitude suddenly changed. High up in the blue sky, a grey-green Egyptian Spitfire ' plunged almost vertically toward the town. As it plummeted with the sun glinting on the wings, it seemed to twist slightly, giving the impression that the plane was out of control. Some Tel Avivians standing in the street began to clap their hands, thinking...
Dear "Murderer (Rank; Universal-International) is a man who tries to commit the perfect crime, by murdering his wife's lover. Eric Portman is wearily proficient as the murderer; Greta Gynt is blowsily sexy as the wife. The forces of British law & order are, as usual, so immaculately polite about their business that it might tempt some U.S. observers to mayhem, just for the pleasure of meeting them. Occasionally there is a flicker of ingenuity or fright, but most of this picture is sad, stock-company stuff...
...Eric Johnston, in a speech earlier last week, proclaimed the tremendous force of the motion picture in forming public opinion...