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...divertissement competing for attention with local movies and plays, Maxwell Anderson's "Joan of Lorraine," which last night began a week's stay at the Brattle Theater, is certainly worth a visit. To regard the current offering of the Cambridge Summer Theater otherwise, is to get involved in bootless speculation on whether Bergman wouldn't have quirked an eyebrow here, or whether Shaw didn't render the line more felicitously there...
...context of our efforts at Geneva to stabilize world economy, and so minimize the privation and unrest that lead to Communism and possible war, the amendment seems again a bootless move. Undersecretary of State Clayton has felt sufficiently convinced of this to return from Geneva and oppose the amendment...
...fingers on one more. Hefty Thakin Soe had cost them face. Arrested, he slipped out of their grip and fled into Rangoon's famed Shwe Dagon Pagoda. Police right behind him had to stop and remove their boots before entering the Buddhist temple. For most of a day bootless police combed its labyrinth of passages and rest houses, guarded every exit. They paid little heed to a bent and evidently blind nun who slowly made her way down the main steps. Not until much later did the police learn that the blind Buddhist nun was Communist Thakin...
...record of the team starts you wondering how it got that way--four wins in four contests is the total so far, with 129 points tallied against four bootless (and scoreless) opponents. But the record, as those on the inside would testify, doesn't tell the whole story by a longshot...
Fleet Admiral Ernie King joined him in this bootless exercise in semantics, based on the technicality that trainees would not be in the armed forces. But details of the training plan (see below) made clear that the 18-year-olds, if not actually in the Army & Navy, at least would have a hard time staying out or getting...