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Shadow of a Doubt (Universal) has the makings of a superb film: Alfred Hitchcock directed it; Thornton Wilder and Sally Benson helped write it; two of Hollywood's best young actors-Teresa Wright (Pride of the Yankees) and Joseph Gotten (The Magnificent Ambersons)-play in it. The result: a superb film...
...learned a lot in three and a half years. He had gotten a general inkling of what the score is, he had learned to see through big people and little people, he had absorbed some hazy ideas about the Intellectual and Social History of Western Civilization and had for better or worse grown up and set. And all the while the learned old ivy and the ageless wrought-iron gates had gotten more important than the skeptical Vagabond had ever thought they would. He appreciated the feelings of the man who wrote, "The saddest tale we have to tell...
...enterprise of the twenties." But the injustice was not the fault of free enterprise at all. Cartels, tariffs, monopolies: these injustices of the twenties, and the thirties and forties, too, are all based upon the stifling of free enterprise. The beneficiaries of these devices, when challenged with their ill-gotten gains, habitually call upon free enterprise to sanctify them. Many reformers have never checked the validity of this stand, but simply condemned free enterprise because "big business" seemed to be in favor of it. Had the Republicans of 1932 offered to sweep away all tariffs, or discontinue all subsidies...
...Inventory & Requisitioning Branch was set up two days after Pearl Harbor with almost unlimited power to handle just such problems. But very little was done to dispose of the frustrated freight. Most of it was gotten out of the ports and out of railroad cars and put into warehouses. BEW, Army, Navy managed to take some things that they could use in fabricated form. But the rest-steel bars, engine blocks for French planes, etc.-got frustrated worse than ever. Worst of all, nobody yet knows how much frustrated freight there...
When the regular games have gotten under way in the week of October 12, the individual House coaches will be in the charge of the pre-practice exercise...