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...dalliance with a small-town girl (Jean Sullivan). At last Flynn and Lukas decide that they are Frenchmen even more than murderer and plain-clothes man. The ethical problem is solved and the picture ended in what readers of A Tale of Two Cities will recognize as a brisk burst of Sydney Carton...
Besides dancing better than ever before, Rita Hayworth looks more than ever like a model in brisk flight from Titian, and shows marked symptoms of acting. Even better is Gene Kelly. Few cinemactors can match his reticence, exact evocativeness and sincerity, or carry such acting abilities into dancing and singing (notably in Cover Girl, Put Me To The Test...
Room 301 in St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, Minn, has light-cream walls and a southeast-corner view, the patient noted. To the Clinic staff, even to his brisk, dark-haired Nurse Mary Conway, the patient was just another one of the 100,000 who come to Mayo's each year. But to Franklin Roosevelt, anxiously reading the wired reports, the man in 301 was much more important...
Kelly got into a first-class scrap that time. He joined in heartily until ammunition began to run low, then volunteered to go for more. Next day also was brisk. Said Kelly...
...their wallets abulge with flat money they could not spend on Lincolns or Frigidaires, were investing heavily in the Hearst and other treasures. Most sales were in the $75 to $100 bracket. Most purchases were of antique firearms and vast oil paintings in outsize gold frames. But there was brisk trading in the Hearst antique paneled rooms (complete with fireplaces and window casements) at $598 to $19,049. And Mr. Hammer had hustled down to Gimbels' groaning floor, and confidently expected eager buyers to snap up a Louis XII carved walnut dresser ($269), a pair of carved 17th-Century...