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Scholastic rating notwithstanding, Radcliffe girls don't measure up to the standards of the socially-minded Vassarite. "They may work hard," she scorns, "but they all look like hell...
...midnight, some of the people who had fled Texas City began to drift back. Some ignored police warnings that the waterfront was "pluperfect hell" and went down to help. Hundreds of grimy, gas-masked men, stupid with fatigue, still labored there-probing for severed legs, torsos, heads, in the red glow of the unquenchable fire. Sometimes squads of rescuers staggered for cover when a change of wind whipped the .blistering heat around. Among them was Father William Roach, of St. Mary's Catholic Church. Father Roach died with his rescue squad when, at 1:11 a.m., the High Flyer...
...Paris' Cirque d'Hiver. "Most of the old clowns have died," he grumbled, "and no new ones have come up because this generation is no good.. . . We are no longer a civilized people but cannibals. . . . People are eating each other up, everything has gone to hell...
Hope of Salvation? The U.S. airlines had gone through their own postwar hell. Some of the burning was due to their own sins. They had sometimes seemed to run their lines, not like globe-straddling enterprisers, but like cow-pasture barnstormers. They had canceled flights without telling passengers till they appeared at the airport; they had lost their luggage; when bad weather closed in, they had set passengers down in out-of-the-way airports and left them to shift for themselves. The winter weather had been terrible. In one grim period in December, so had the plane crashes. Many...
...proud and loving tribute to the unbreakable British backbone. It tells the story of the lower-middle-class Gibbons family between Wars I & II. The film opens and ends with a fine Technicolor shot of the roofs of London. In the closing shot the roofs lie defenseless to the hell that is soon to crack them open. But by then, Coward has made clear how ready the people under the roofs are to endure the worst and to prevail against it. He shows this never through flat heroics, but through the quiet, immense courage, patience, kindliness and common sense which...