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Archbishop Beran, the calm center of the storm, remained a semi-prisoner in his Prague palace. All the resources of the Communist propaganda machine were employed in attacking him. The trade-union newspaper Prace accused him of working for "Wall Street-dominated Vatican City." "Leading such a gang," the paper said, "the Archbishop is heading into his own destruction...
...provoked some sardonic comments in the Department of Justice. Since 1947, the Department of Justice has not won a single search-and-seizure case; in reversing the Government, the court has opened jail doors wide to let known felons out. In the Trupiano case, G-men pinched a gang of bootleggers whom they had watched manufacturing alcohol for months. The court would not admit the alcohol as evidence because the G-men had no search warrant when they seized it. That much zeal for civil rights, Government agents felt, transcended common sense. The majority of the court, however, maintained that...
...marketeering, profiteering, corruption, favoritism and nepotism stalk the land. There is resort to police terrorism on the slightest pretext. The Congress' name today is mud." Congress was split by petty quarrels, weakened by a 10% rise in food prices during the past year, and harassed by a Communist gang-up with Bose...
...naked quality, Lord, 47-year-old veteran radio producer (Seth Parker; Gang Busters; Mr. District Attorney; We, the People), combs New York City for likely-looking characters. His scouts prowl the Bowery and Broadway, hang around fight arenas and ballparks, wander Brooklyn and Harlem slums. The people they find-including rum-soaked derelicts, strapping longshoremen, street-corner evangelists, wispy old ladies-become the actors in The Black Robe (Wed. 8:30 p.m. E.D.T., NBC-TV), highstrung Phillips Lord's first TV venture...
...Hood, McCrea is bad only because he is good. He stakes a couple of settlers (Dorothy Malone and Henry Hull) to the cost of a new well, and, to feather the nest of a sick buddy, agrees to stick up just one more train. As helpers, he has a gang of really bad men, who try to doublecross him, and he has the single-minded love of a dingily blonde half-breed (Virginia Mayo...