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...births, accidents, war news, medical discoveries, rooms to let, illicit love affairs-that after a while the play's title seems less like a symbol of hope than the name of a newspaper. Too often, moreover, the war news is shunted off the front page in favor of flashier items. The hero (Gregory Peck), a brilliant young doctor thwarted by his superiors, abandons his work to toss off a best-selling novel, and his wife to take up vith a high-stepping trollop (Wendy Barrie). But medicine and matrimony eventually...
...called upon to fill the shoes--or rather, dancing slippers--of Ginger Rogers, and to twirl the light fantastic with filmdom's ablest dancer, Fred Astaire. It's to her credit that she does a snappy job, although she is continually outshone in their dancing scenes by her flashier partner. This is a fate which was shared by La Rogers as well, and it is probably due as much to the excellent camera angles which Astaire is granted as to any greater talent that he may have...
Another improvement can be noted, beside the fielding average--that is, flashier base-running. Although the box-score only credits the Crimson with two stolen sacks, this is due to the fact that in four frames the Holy Cross hurler disposed of the Crimson one-two-three, and in only one did he face more than four batters. The two bases Saturday added to the seven against Columbia a week ago show a definite up-swing in this department...
...pattern of a happy ending with marriage or its promise, and three others salute the beginnings of romance in their last sentences. The favorite story of Post writers is that of an inconspicuous worthy who is pushed around at first, finally comes out on top, usually triumphing over some flashier rival in the process. They tell it expertly, with no waste motions, sometimes with humor, frequently with a good deal of technical information thrown in-about steel mills, prize fights, greyhound racing, navigation. Except for Thomas Wolfe's story of racial conflict, The Child by Tiger, and Walter Edmonds...
...Biographer McCormick quotes his hero's unheroic remark with Yankee pride, proceeds to argue that Grant was the greatest soldier of them all. Grant's military genius, thinks the publisher of the Chicago Tribune, has never had its due; his reputation has been unjustly overshadowed by the flashier fame of soldiers he defeated-or could have. Says his biographer: "It is time that we repudiate these servile Americans, time that we no longer allow an American general who in four years commanded forces ranging in size from one thousand to one million men. who was never defeated...