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Douglas Fairbanks Presents (Wed. 10:30 p.m., NBCTV) is a filmed drama series made in Britain with a high professional polish. But the competence of the first show, a playlet dealing with an insurance agent falsely accused of murder and attempted rape, was overshadowed by the glossy commercials delivered in pear-shaped tones by Douglas Fairbanks Jr. himself, and including asides on the Magna Carta and the American Revolution, and the suggestion that the international set is rapidly abandoning pink champagne in favor of the more dizzying delights of Rheingold beer...
...Rape. Grimly the judges ticked off the charges against Denise and her companions: treason (in the cases of all twelve French citizens), murder, espionage, association with criminals, and, here & there, a bit of rape. ". . . The Gestapo of Rue de la Pompe," intoned the court, "was . . . most infamous . . . The tragic figures can be translated thus: more than 300 arrests, 160 deportations to Germany, of whom 50 died in concentration camps, 40 shot...
...Cooper recalls almost everything unimportant that happened in Sironia, a pseudonymous Texas town (Cooper has always lived in Waco) in the first 20 years of the century. He tells the important things too; but with the gift of the true gossip for pure indiscrimination he can tell about a rape in the same cozy tone he uses to describe a family evening at home -and, in Sironia, one seems to have been as common as the other...
...claim they have certain principles. I call them inhibitions. I do not have any." Untrammeled by principles, Publisher Karanjia has boosted Blitz's circulation to 50,000, made it the biggest weekly in English in India. Blitz is openly proCommunist, in every issue has wild stories of murder, rape and crime, and lying tales about Americans. One article quoted a nonexistent American wire service called "USI" as saying that President Truman was insane and locked in the White House; "dispatches" from Korea picture American generals staging wild orgies featuring parades of nude women prisoners...
Murder, arson and rape, if you like, but apathy at a match like that of Saturday! Really! Where did you learn to smear in such a fashion? Charles K. Webster, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University...