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...south, they kept Kharkov and Dniepropetrovsk, keys to the Ukraine, although the Russians made such onslaughts toward the Dnieper bend that German propaganda spoke, undoubtedly with wild distortion, of 1,500,000 attackers...
...Korda; United Artists) is the late Carole Lombard's last picture. Like Son of the Sheik (Rudolph Valentino), Steamboat 'Round the Bend (Will Rogers) and Saratoga (Jean Harlow), it was posthumously released. Fortunately for all concerned, To Be is a very funny comedy, salted to taste with melodrama and satire...
...conga. Whereas the distinctive feature of the rumba is undulating hip movements, of the conga a one-two-three-kick rhythm, basis of the samba is a springy, knee-action rise & fall-a motion heretofore found mainly on ski slopes. The samba's one ironclad rule: a knee-bend on every beat. A ballroomful of bobbing samba dancers suggests a gay polka, but the bobs in the samba are downs & ups, not ups & downs. The weight remains on one foot at a time for two full counts and dips. But quick waltzlike turns are also permissible...
...have to look far in our part of the country." To scotch any suggestion of ivory-hunting, he points out that three of the boys in his starting line-up live within 100 miles of the college campus; the other two. who hail from Malta Bend, Mo., came to West Texas State because their uncle is a caretaker there...
These attacks pointed up the difference between Russia's bad-weather tactics and Germany's fair-weather tactics. The Russians drive wedges, hoping to cut communications and make the enemy fall back. The Germans drive wedges and bend them into encirclements, hoping to cut off the enemy and destroy him. In the difference may lie the future of Russia...