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...with politics until he was 41. His career was law, his sports were bridge, golf, curling and fishing. Born in 1899 (at Lennoxville, Quebec), he served overseas in World War I, returned to finish his law studies. By 1940 he had a pretty wife, three children, a medium-sized income in a medium-sized Montreal law firm, and an idea that he might like to be a judge. As a steppingstone, he decided to contest St. Antoine-Westmount, where no Liberal was supposed to have a chance. To his own surprise, he was elected...
...psychologically penetrating, as any Chaplin has ever contrived. The casting (including Victim Margaret .Hoffman) is excellent and there are a couple of dozen fine pieces of characterization and acting, notably by Isobel Elsom and Martha Raye. Working with a new character, and adapting his old, mute artfulness to a medium new and basically hostile to him, Chaplin still has his sure virtuosity; his is one of the most beautiful single performances ever put on film...
...pressure of population, but will yield corn and wheat enough to enable Mexico at last to feed itself. Chances are that most of these acres will be developed as small tracts, under private ownership. Significantly, Aléman's first agrarian measure was a law protecting the medium-sized farms that survived the land expropriations from the threatening encroachment of ejidos...
...established batting stars ranged from medium hot to ice cold. Temperamental Ted Williams, helping the Red Sox off to another flying start, had trained himself to hit to left field against the opposition's Williams-shift to deep right. The Cardinals' great clutch hitter, Stan Musial, was having early-season trouble connecting with curves...
...expanded world trade approach offers the best long run hope for any real world prosperity and economic peace. Second, a program of expansion both at home and throughout the world, is out finest and perhaps last chance to demonstrate the essential superiority of a free enterprise system as a medium for a high level of employment and standard of living as compared with the government controlled economics of other nations. By supporting a low tariff policy and by putting our own economic house in order, we can best achieve these aims...