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After watching, listening to and reading about the McCarthy-Stevens hearings, I have come to the conclusion that the only way we will ever get at the truth is to place one of Li'l Abner's "Bald Iggles" in a conspicuous place, where each witness must stare into those "sad, reproachful eyes that pierce souls...
What a period comedy generally needs is a strong hand in the cutting shears. Surprisingly, Director Lean has succumbed too often to a temptation to stand there with his shutter hanging open and stare at a prodigious exhibition of facial calisthenics. Laughton smirks, pouts, bug-eyes, belches, quivers his wattles, sleeve-wipes his nose, and generally golliwoggs it to a degree he has not attained since The Private Life of Henry VIII...
...with Mr. History." Meanwhile, the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer, in a report from London, told its readers how it feels to be Mrs. Billy Graham. Confided Ruth Graham to the Observer's observer: "Just pray for a thick skin and a tender heart. You need it when people just stare coldly and call you a racketeer. Of course, there are many others who think we're just the cat's whiskers...
...fact, Ackerman, international director of the World Home Bible League, which gives away close to 400,000 Bibles a year, feels that Godfrey is occasionally "suggestive." But when, while he was switching channels one night, Godfrey's humble face swam onto the screen, Bibleman Ackerman stopped to stare. "The Redhead" was pouring the commercial...
...twelfth day, Secretary of the Army Robert Ten Broeck Stevens sat, grey-faced, before the stare of the television cameras. Across a crouched pack of news photographers, he faced the glower of Senator Joe McCarthy. The Secretary's right eye blinked irregularly and his right cheek twitched as he tried to follow the curves and hooks in McCarthy's questions. Using all of his formidable tricks of crossexamination, the Senator was trying to confuse the Secretary into a key admission: he wanted Stevens to say that McCarthy & Co. had never "threatened" the Army in an effort...