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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fairways of the English language to rummage in the rough (A Dictionary of Slang, Shakespeare's Bawdy), shows in his massive new Dictionary of the Underworld that even in 18th Century London a beak was a magistrate, a college was a prison, and to frisk was to search. But U.S. criminals, no mere copycats, have made their own additions to the lingo, among them (see above): torpedo (to kill), pipe (to see), case dough (trial money) and square jack (honest money...
...peculiar request highlighted a peculiar situation last week. Britain, France and the U.S. asked the Kremlin to let an international commission search Russia for missing German prisoners...
Britain, France and the U.S. had no expectation that Moscow would comply with the request to admit a search party. The fact that they even made such a request underscores the weird unreality of diplomatic relations with the U.S.S.R. In effect, the notes say that the Western powers simply do not believe the Soviet government, and consider it quite capable of either murdering or enslaving hundreds of thousands of helpless prisoners...
...flaws are such minor ones as Dimitri Tiomkin's musical score, which is so overexcited that it sometimes gets in the way of the action. Director Fred (The Search) Zinneman's sensitive work clearly places him in the first rank of screen directors. The film is full of fine performances, especially by Actors Sloane and Webb and Actress Wright. Broadway's Marlon Brando, in his first movie appearance, does a magnificent job. His halting, mumbled delivery, glowering silences and expert simulation of paraplegia do not suggest acting at all; they look chillingly like the real thing...
...assisted attack bomber. For production of the Air Force's long-range B-36 bomber, Consolidated Vultee had $250 million in Government orders. Lockheed had the fast F94 on the assembly line (see cut) as part of a $225 million backlog. A jet-powered fighter, the F94 has search radar housed in its ball-like plastic nose, can seek out and destroy enemy aircraft approaching through thick clouds and darkness...