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...Think Coming. Trim and confident, Mr. Truman stood up. Harry Vaughan, he said, had been his friend since they were soldiers together at Fort Sill in 1917. Everybody in the room knew that he loved wisecracking Harry Vaughan, and that he despised Drew Pearson, whom he once called a liar.† Once, Pearson wrote some critical remarks about Mrs. Truman and Margaret; the President never forgave...
...court listened to him for two days, called him a liar and observed: ". . . the well-known trick ... of substituting for guilty participants dead men whose lips are sealed." There would be no new trial for any of the boys...
Toni Sender's grim bill of particulars stung the Russians hard. Cried Delegate Tsarapkin: "Filthy libel ... a dirty pamphlet supplied the State Department by a lackey union." When Miss Sender suggested that, to determine who was a liar, a survey be made of forced labor in all the United Nations, the Russian snapped: "Traveling in the Soviet Union is forbidden to haters of the U.S.S.R...
Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre speculated on the wonderful possibilities of movies: "Sherwood Anderson once called himself a liar. That was his way of saying that he was a writer, and his lies have charmed us ever since his writings began to appear . . . But he lied with words only. What tempts today's writer for the screen is that he can lie with cinematic imagery...
...Aumont plays the liar-adventurer and does it very well. He is wholly creditable as the fatal charmer, an exceedingly difficult job to do without making the character a slippery heel. He injects a good deal of humor into his acting, notably through gestures. Despite this, however, the characters of the wife and daughter are more intriguing, if less whole. Arlene Francis plays the wife with a restraint that suggests that there is more to her than the script will allow. Her part is brief and disturbing; the audience is hardly allowed to make more than a "cocktail-party analysis...