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...replying to Mississippi's fuzzy-headed Representative John Elliott Rankin, No. 1 Jew-baiter of the House, who has busied himself lately trying to convince the House that the time is ripe for a negotiated peace between Britain and Germany. Rankin had just told a deathly-still House: "Mr. Speaker, Wall Street and a little group of our international Jewish brethren are still attempting to harass the President . . . and the Congress of the United States into plunging us into the European war, unprepared. . . . These international bankers are so afraid that this peace movement . . . might take root . . . before they...
Lady From Louisiana (Republic) suggests that the land of the bayous was ripe for plucking long before the advent of Kingfish Huey Long. It also records the triumph of a 19th-Century Thomas E. Dewey (John Wayne) over one of Dewey's favorite rackets-the lottery...
...countries bordering the eastern Mediterranean collapses. Last week the enemy was clearly developing a huge strategy designed to flank Suez. It was hard to tell whether the super-parenthesis being formed through Libya and Egypt was stalled or just pausing; probably it was pausing to wait for the ripe hour. And on the other flank in Iraq, using the old Hitlerian devices of politics, fears, racial hatred, the enemy was nibbling, nibbling...
...Ripe in years, withered, but impeccably preserved in the traditions of the late George Apley, the Boston Evening Transcript this week hovered near death's door. Last hope was that Bostonians could offer some "prompt, sound alternative" to death. Publisher Richard N. Johnson suggested a last-minute miracle-public subscription by 1,000 citizens of $500 each. Failing this, he announced, the issue of April 30 would be the last...
...appear at the bottom of the screen. When Crosby tries to argue Hope into wrestling the octopus, he explains : "I'm trying to make you famous-people will write books about you." Cracks Hope: "Well, I know three words that won't be in 'em-'ripe old age.' " Bing-of-all-Trades. Road to Zanzibar is not a 100% movie. That is as it should be, for its star is not a 100% movie star...