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...With You. They have also wowed the public with whoppers: Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, Lost Horizon. Director Capra, working without his Alter Ego Riskin, wowed the public with the heroic scale of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. The bigger these pictures have gotten, the simpler have been their basic sentiments. The vast Tibetan spaces of Lost Horizon enclosed the theme BE KIND (Capra's own description). Mr. Deeds went to town to preach LOVE YOUR FELLOW MAN (ditto). Among the marbles of Washington, Mr. Smith found the meaning of LOVE YOUR COUNTRY...
Athenians and Londoners danced a new step last week, the "Tuscana." C. L. ("Lambeth Walk") Heimann and Lyric Writer Eric Maschwitz created the new "Wop Trot," named for the "Wolves of Tuscany." Basic movement: one step forward, two back. Chorus...
Trade winds are the most reliable part of the planet's basic air movement, which is from the equator toward the poles. On the equator itself are the doldrums, where hot air rising makes little or no breeze. North and south of the doldrums the upper air begins its poleward journey by flowing steadily westward. Then it slowly shifts to become a south wind, shifts again in the temperate zone to become the prevailing westerlies. Far from their equatorial source, winds are made unpredictable by local forces. But the trades, neglected by the Age of Steam, are still blowing...
Such is Cash's basic Southerner. On this man two influences converged: the South's own aristocrats and the Yankee. From the aristocratic ideal he perfected the famous Southern Manner, which at its best is as genuine a courtesy as the world can show; his rural individualism was sharpened into a violent sense of personal Honor. In some Southern types the result was "a great cleanness and decency . . . one of the most pleasant things that ever grew up on American soil." But under the political and moral pressure of the Yankee this sense of honor became incandescent...
After the physical test, the candidate receives an appointment as a cadet. With $75 a month, plus food, lodging, and clothes, he begins his seven-month training course, which includes three months in elementary civilian schools, two months of basic army flying, and two months of advanced flying. He then enters active duty with a reserve officer...