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...which have some $125,000,000-worth of assets in this country. This would permit the U.S. to cut off transfer of dividends and earnings to Sweden. At week's end, Leo Crowley's FEA was cautiously studying such a move. But the State Department gave the screw a turn. It added 38 more Swedish firms in neutral nations to its blacklist...
...clock the scene in Gallery E 15, where the famed Maitland F. Griggs Italian paintings hung on special exhibition, was serenely normal: gallerygoers quietly strolled over the cork floor, paused, peered at small pictures invisibly screwed to the walls. At 3:15, a uniformed guard made his routine round of inspection. His eyes widened in horror: only screw holes marked the spot where Simone's St. Thomas had hung. He rushed to his superior. No gong clanged, no revolvers flashed from holsters. People leaving the museum were closely scrutinized. (Frisking or detaining on suspicion on such occasions...
...side of the Atlantic, suspicions had grown steadily. And since Administration statements stressed the out flow, and soft-pedaled British "Lend-Lease in reverse," the suspicions had a base. Further, every time rationing twisted the screw again, anti-British propagandists got a new audience for their claim that Lend-Lease has been a giant British steal...
...will admit that this is an excellent satire on the pseudo-cultured elite of our present-day business civilization. And it goes even one step further: it strips a 1943 movie of all its cheap thrills and tries to portray an intensely psychological situation, almost a "Turn of the Screw" of its own. Such effort, if nothing else, is commendable. For it makes some effort to "legitimatize" the screen into a point where not only the Hays office but all the standards of movieland are strict enough to produce a film that holds the delicate pattern that is portrayed...
...that sustains me. . . ." Screw-tape's last letter reads with the raging crankiness of a Browning monologue: "You have let a soul slip through your fingers. . . . The more one thinks about it, the worse it becomes. He got through so easily! No gradual misgivings, no doctor's sentence, no nursing home, no operating theater, no false hopes of life; sheer, instantaneous liberation. One moment it seemed to be all our world; the scream of bombs, the fall of houses ... the heart cold with horrors, the brain reeling, the legs aching; next moment all this was gone, gone like...