Word: markedly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...first-class openings mark the New York scene. Mary Chase's Harvey starts Thursday at the Astor, Broadway and 45th, James Stewart plays the lead role, as he did on Broadway for quite a spell. Another superb comedy returns to the Great White Way in movie form: Judy Holiday won a screen test derby to retain the part which made her famous on the stage in Born Yesterday. Broderick Crawford and William Holden have the supporting roles. The premiere is scheduled at the Victoria, Broadway and 46th, a week from today...
...sharpest thorns in East Germany's Communist hide is a 14-month-old underground organization directed from West Berlin. The Investigating Committee of Free Lawyers of the Soviet Zone was founded by Dr. Theo Friedenau, 39-year-old lawyer, who has a 500,000 East mark Communist price tag on his head. His organization of 3.000 East German lawyers, judges and public officials exposes Soviet zone perversions of justice and tries to frighten Communist officials by reporting their crimes to Friedenau in Berlin...
...sentimental first novel about a bemused little woman with a big heart and a feeble mind. A shirt manufacturer from Iowa, Richard Bissell, wrote A Stretch on the River, a first novel about Mississippi River boatmen, and got as much tang into his account as anyone since Mark Twain...
Cloak & Dagger Missions. Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy's Was There, while dry and cautious, belonged on the shelf of must reading for the history-minded. So did Admiral Frederick Sherman's Combat Command, General Mark Clark's spirited Calculated Risk, and General Bob Eichelberger's straightforward story of the Eighth Army in the Pacific, Our Jungle Road to Tokyo. Several of the personal-adventure books made excellent reading. Best of the lot was British Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean's Escape to Adventure, a lusty, well-written narrative of daring and luck in carrying out cloak...
Apparently B.U. needs about 20 minutes to get organized, because with the start of the second period, the Terriers began to play as a team; the game was decided by the 11-minute mark...