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The hope that the Reds would soften their high-flying terms by traditional Chinese bargaining methods was expressed by a postman: "It's just like arguing with a ricksha coolie. First he asks for the highest price and then settles for a lower figure." But it was unlikely that...
Make Way for Lucia (by John van Druten, based on E. F. Benson's novels; produced by the Theatre Guild) tells of a showoff English widow (Isabel Jeans) who settles down for the summer of 1912 in a buzzing English village. Christened Emmeline but always called Lu-chee-a...
Until the world settles down, Dr. Petterssen's job will be mainly military. But if happier times ever come, his new methods will eventually reach the workaday Weather Bureau and be used to warn picnickers against sudden summer showers.
When he settles down in his armchair to read, he turns to old masterpieces (two recent exceptions: the poetry of Pulitzer-Prizewinning U.S. Poet Robert Lowell, which he admires, and a German biography of Albert Einstein, for whom he has great regard). Santayana is never too busy to see visitors...
O'Neill's story is strong enough to stand this treatment. It is a fond backward look at the Millers, who are struggling with big & little family crises during an old-fashioned Fourth of July. Most of the trouble is started by son Richard (Mickey Rooney), a sensitive...