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...This advertising version of an American dogface sprawls comfortably against a clean green jungle background. Not a wisp of whisker mars his healthy smiling puss. There's a press in his pants. And for gosh sakes, his shoes are shined...
...movie is a slow-going, vulgarly conceived, poorly executed melodrama about love in the tropics with all the usual background of palm trees, native uprisings, buried treasure, virile torsos, and dishonest fellows. In the end of course Love and Honesty are triumphantly rampant on a field of Carribbean blue. The only good thing about the picture is the technicolor...
Figures showing the background grouping of 200 members of the Army Supply Officers Training School recently compiled by one of the men involved, saying that the average students can be described as 2nd lieutenants who came free Quartermasters' Replacement Center with college sheepskins tucked under their arms...
Whose Fault? Against this background, which was not too dissimilar from that of other war-crowded cities, Michigan's Governor Harry F. Kelly last week issued the report of a committee he had set up to determine the causes of Detroit's riot. Said the report, in a broad whitewash of the city's bumbling, do-nothing administration and incompetent police force...
Fish-fries followed fishing. For dessert there were bowls of Manitoulin blueberries. In the background constantly hovered Royal Canadian Mounted Police, members of the U.S. Army, Secret Service men. The inhabitants of Birch Island Station (three summer cottages, two farm dwellings, one church) kept mum about the Old Fisherman, the warplanes that zoomed...