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...Army was not in a state of revolt. But Russia's rulers were audibly disturbed. President Mikhail Kalinin himself recently took note of returning Red Army men's complaints that they could find nothing to buy. The veterans, he admitted, to a certain extent were impressed by German "petty culture." Then he gave some serious advice to Party propagandists and agitators who would have to deal, among other things, with veterans no longer happy at home...
...worst-a worst already recorded by such masters as Flaubert. Their sordid motives and moral density probably reached an all-time low in the world Adolf Hitler gave them to live in-a world which both encouraged and required the type. In spite of his zeal, Author-Director Mikhail Romm has not made an adequate image of the German people. But he has made a more than adequately exciting movie-powerfully acted, and conceived and directed with considerable intelligence...
...best of Russia's ten best chess-masters engaged in the four-day frolic was Mikhail Botvinnik, an engineer whose double-thick spectacles made him look like the right man for the No. 1 board. Topping the U.S. big ten was Arnold Denker, who was a welterweight, flunked plane geometry, looked as much like a deep thinker as most 200-lb. fullbacks. Cracked Champion Denker before he dug in, by remote control,against Champion Botvinnik: "I've just got to beat him . . . my dentist's name also happens to be Botvinnik...
Scum, Mad Dogs, Vermin. A few days later Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky and most of the top men in the Red Army's general staff were arrested and shot for "treason." Cried the Soviet radio: "Fascist traitors," "mad dogs," "criminal scum of humanity." "stinking vermin." Says Barmine: "I knew better...
...quisitive governess (Gail Russell); a suspiciously unpleasant widower (Joel McCrea); a medical neighbor with a voice like sloe gin (Herbert Marshall); a brutal and mysterious murder; two edgy chil dren (Nona Griffith and Richard Lyon) in sadistic league about some grim secret; a sour-eyed furnace-fixer (Mikhail Rasumny) ; and a rumor of wandering lights in the boarded-up mansion next door...