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...production line cannot stop, but Caniff, a dreadful procrastinator, does his best to slow it to a calm, unhurried pace. He seizes on any excuse-like the postman's arrival with fan mail-to break off work. To his assistant, Frank Engli, he is a casual boss who slings the slang along with the strips they hand back & forth for inking, lettering and checking...
Everybody sees that Generalissimus Chiang Kai-Shek look not too as a Chinese. Mr. Svaricek, postman of Brtnice, whos was 1915-20 at Russia and Siberia . . . declared that Chiang Kai-Shek was born in Moravia country here. His war companion, Mr. Navratil, Businessman of Jaromĕřice and Roky-tna . . . was, they say, with present Chiang Kai-Shek going to school...
...went on what she herself called "the longest wake in history," then, after 13 years of comparative obscurity and bit parts, won acclaim in last year's The Glass Menagerie, for the best performance of 1945. "That just goes to show," said she, "that the postman can ring twice...
...ruling clique. The other was lantern-jawed, indomitable Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, leader of the anti-Communist Polish Peasant Party who, of all Polish public figures today, enjoys perhaps the highest popularity and the lowest life-expectancy. The two neighbors, though they shared the same Tommy-gun-toting doormen, the same postman and the same erratic central heating, were not on speaking terms. They were engaged in an implacable battle leading up to a grave finale: Poland's long-delayed national elections, now scheduled...
...fancy for films of violence in the "Double Indemnity" or "Postman Rings Twice" mode may or may not be a passing one; while it lasts, at least, "The Big Sleep" should hold its own among the rest --clarity and the critics notwithstanding...