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Canada's wartime Prices and Trade Board decreed two simplifications for Canada's tables last week: 1) it rationed butter to half a pound per week per person; 2) it ordered porcelain manufacturers to abandon fripperies, especially cup handles...
...Ambassador Phillips' new mission* does not mean that the U.S. intends to abandon its hands-off policy in the bitter struggle over India's political status. At 64, Ambassador Phillips is a patient, conservative diplomat who has never ruffled feathers nor interfered with history. And to clear up any possible doubt, Franklin Roosevelt said plainly: his representative carries no plans and no formulas...
...merchantman was burning in several places, settling fast. The captain gave the order to abandon ship. Some of the ship's crew of 41 had been killed or wounded; all the ship's boats except one had been smashed by the shelling. As she went down, her colors flying, many of the crew were swept away by the high seas...
...thing we can do . . . is to abandon the idea that the public has no confidence in our point of view. . . . This, as I see it, is the biggest challenge before management today: will we take the same initiative in public affairs we always have taken in the management of our individual busi nesses? It will mean an end to the easy practice of saying nothing except to criticize the mistakes of others. It will mean that we will have to take the responsibility of making constructive recommendations of our own, and this includes accepting the blame if these recommendations...
Most charming of the picture's attributes is its tendency to abandon the usual Hollywood baby talk for normal adult conversation, achieving striking success in its seemingly minor-key moments. The characters do not insist on mouthing Shakespearian lines at every turn, and when they do, it stands out in obvious and unsatisfactory contrast. Scattered complaints that the film is "mushy" can be upheld by pointing to those less likeable sections where the actors attend to the business of acting, but those condemnations are completely subordinated by the picture's masterful, off-guard body...