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...quarrel with Bellamy's performance might as fairly be lodged against the author or the director. Roosevelt appears too jaunty and gay when he is first stricken. Confidence and good humor did indeed mark his illness, but they are too extreme here and Bellamy does not convey the strain that F.D.R.'s grin must have been for him then...
...actors contribute to this effect through very strong performances, as Mary Fickett as Eleanor, Henry Jones as Howe, and Ann Seymour as the stricken man's mother contend among themselves and for their own conceptions of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. What they need is more organization, and perhaps the act simply requires cutting...
...NATO summit meeting, Russia showered the U.S.'s allies with letters threatening destruction if they accepted U.S. missiles. "We do not want to continue the arms race," Nikita told visiting U.S. Publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr. "We have already won over you. Your cities and bases could be stricken from the face of the earth. Your overseas bases are yours, but they are surrounded by the peoples of those countries. You will see?one day they will awaken from their slumber and recognize the folly of depending on NATO and such alliances for their protection." But he ordered his diplomats...
...Woodrow Wilson, fearing that he could not regain power, refused to surrender responsibility to Vice President Thomas Marshall, even though he had suffered a severe stroke which had paralyzed his left side and heavily impaired his speech. Stricken in September 1919, Wilson was incapacitated much of the 17 months until his term ended. Neither Marshall, the Cabinet nor Congress was told the truth about his condition;* state papers were sent to Mrs. Wilson, who decided which could be shown the Chief Executive without exciting him, which must be passed on to aides for action. For some two months, Wilson...
...announcements of "digestive upset" that preceded disclosure of Ike's heart attack in 1955 and last year's ileitis. But on both previous occasions Press Secretary Jim Hagerty made swift amends with a discursive, detailed flow of information on the President's progress. When Ike was stricken last week, Hagerty was in Paris...