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Another reason for the article, Feeney speculated, was that Roy Larsen, "Time's number-two man, was one of the half-dozen finalists in the race for Harvard President; and he chose this way to assure Pusey he didn't hold any grudge for being nosed...
With at least a half-dozen European film festivals distributing awards each year, even the boast of a "grand prize" is likely to met a jaded response. This accolade, which Miss Julie won at Cannes in 1951, however, rightly draws attention to a film which has received far less notice in this country than it deserves. The distinction of Miss Julie is not its evocation of Strindberg's somber drama, but an artistry in direction and camera-work which makes the film something of a technical masterpiece...
...inspection of her industries. The new plan fails because it places only a moral barrier against a nation's use of atomic weapons for a sneak attack. In 1932, a country using gas would run the risk of retaliation not only from the state it quacked, but from a half-dozen other relatively powerful nations. The consequences of aggression with gas and chemicals were so staggering that even in World0-War II, although every country continued to stockpile such weapons, neither side dared use them...
...Public Stench." Nieman, a veteran newsman, had bought the newborn Journal in 1882, when it was barely 22 days old (the Journal considers Nieman its "founder"). Nieman was disgusted with the timidity of the city's half-dozen dailies, which he thought were more interested in pleasing businessmen and politicians than in covering the news. He set the Journal on a different course with his dictum: "Never care about classes, but about people. Get all of the information [;you can] about matters of importance to the public, giving them all sides of the question." When more than 70 people...
Although the 34 oils that make up the major part of the show cover subjects ranging from landscapes to the entrails cart of a Martinique slaughterhouse, Cooke is at his best in a half-dozen portraits. Probably the best of these is his Portrait of Ernst Benkert, executed with bold brushwork in a subdued but powerful palette...