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...Shake Hands with the Devil (Pennebaker; United Artists) turns a heap of expensive ingredients-James Cagney, Don Murray, Michael Redgrave, Dame Sybil Thorndike, Dana Wynter, Glynis Johns-into an everyday Irish stew. Taken from a 1934 novel by Rearden Conner, the plot concerns a young American (Murray), a medical student in Dublin just after World War I, who finds himself innocently involved in "The Trouble." Pursued by the Black and Tans, he is spirited away by one of his professors (Cagney), who turns out to be a high officer in the Irish Republican Army. Grateful and idealistic, he joins...
...that moment was the most commented-upon picture in the Parisian press last week. When so much hangs on one man, a whole nation anxiously watches him. At 68, Charles de Gaulle's eyesight is failing; without his thick-lensed glasses, he often fails to recognize people who shake his hand, and he suffers momentary blindness when he steps from shadow into sunlight. The old soldier maintains a killing pace: a vast correspondence, reams of official reading matter and constant travel (this week he is on another trip to Madagascar) that would exhaust many a younger...
...phenomenal growth? The companies are heavily dependent on Government contracts, which can be cut back or canceled overnight. Their products often can be copied by competitors. Their financing can fall through if the stratospheric stock market ever tumbles or credit tightens. Their space-age industries can run into rugged shake-outs-just as most other industries have in the past. This means that only those with the wisest managers, the sharpest scientists and the biggest bankrolls will come through. Even for those, the prices of the stocks are so high that investors are, in effect, paying on the basis...
...this biography, already distinguished for having drawn the wrath of Chief Justice Earl Warren (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), New York Herald Tribune Reporter Earl Mazo recalls that when Nixon gave the 1954 commencement address at Whittier College, two separate receiving lines were necessary-for those who were ready to shake Nixon's hand and for those who refused to. This book, which is basically friendly toward Nixon, may switch some readers from the non-handshaking to the handshaking column. But most of all, what it offers is 1) some fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpses of an extraordinary political career...
...Real Fats Waller (Camden). The late master of the stride piano wheels exuberantly through some early classics (Carolina Shout), clowns it up in some typically hammy vocals ("I'm da Shook, da Shake, da Sheik from Araby"), and displays flashes of his more filigreed style in his own Ain't Misbehavin...