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...press conference. Bogart read a prepared statement about their trip to Washington (six weeks ago) to protest the Reds-in-Hollywood investigation: "I am not a Communist . . . I am not sympathetic . . . I see now that my trip was illadvised, foolish and impetuous . . . I acted impetuously and foolishly on the spur of the moment, like I am sure many other American citizens do at many times." Then he put the script down and explained: "We went in green. They beat our brains...
...compels respect, he is seldom liked. Moreover, his faculties, shaped for heroic feats, despise the pliability, the intrigues and the parade through which most brilliant careers are achieved in peacetime. And so he would be condemned to emasculation or corruption, if he lacked the grim impulse of ambition to spur him on. It is not, to be sure, that the passion for rank and honors, which is only careerism, possess him, but it is beyond doubt the hope of playing a great role in great events...
Boston University's hopes for victory today may rest with the shrewdness of Buff Donelli, but aiding him in his difficult task are three assistant coaches, two of them newly imported this year to spur on the B.U. athletic renaissance...
...billion gallons of water. The Seine river, which fed it, was diverted by digging away 2,000,000 cubic yards of earth and rock for a new channel, and by constructing a system of dams and tunnels. The Canadian Government chipped in $5,200,000 for roads, a railway spur, power lines and a dock at Port Arthur to handle the ore. In 1944, a year after work was started, the first ore came out of the open pits...
...fact that there is an abundance of crime to report, is played down. There is considerable criticism of the arts. The rest of the printed news consists almost entirely of stories that are 1) admonitory (general and often specific criticism of conditions in the Soviet Union), 2) exhortatory (to spur desirable activities like 'the proper service of customers in communal dining rooms'), 3) panegyrical (eulogizing Stalin...