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...face at the prow of a beautiful head. . . . Eyes pale with intensity seemed more like hieroglyphics of intelligence than eyes in a face and a somber Semitic nose carved with chastening Polish delicacy supported them. Pale firmly-full lips smiled with nervous sadness over strange teeth, and only the chin was allowed to rest a little from the forward-moving pace of his vitality. It afforded a slight pause in the breathless race to take in the rest. The next minute you realized that its backward movement was controlled with a fierceness that could defeat a Napoleon...
...craggy, pipe-smoking fellow Commissioner Howard L. Vickery, who is largely responsible for construction. This week Jerry Land felt good about production, but a little wary too. Like any other defense administrator, he didn't know when he might be called to the White House, chucked under the chin and told to step up his shipbuilding still further for the sake of some ally...
Saybrook, who meets the Funsters, seems to have taken it on the chin this season, but in spite of this, has a good air attack, with which to tie up the Dunster defenders. Funster hopes will rest mainly on all-House back Don Cole, whose brilliant passing and running have sparked them all year...
Punchinello LaGuardia led with his chin again last week, this time got it punched by various assorted clergymen. As the country's Civilian Defense Director, New York City's Mayor asked all pastors, priests and rabbis to preach on religious freedom and democracy next Sunday, enclosed a pretty fair 1,500-word "outline" of the sort of sermon he hoped for. In a nation where Church and State are constitutionally separate, the mere suggestion made numerous ministers mad. Maddest was Editor Charles Clayton Morrison of the arch-isolationist Christian Century...
...Graceful English Leonora Corbett romps amusingly as the twitting first wife; Peggy Wood (Old Acquaintance) huffs expertly as the twitted second one; and Mildred Natwick (Missouri Legend) plays the medium-who in her trances is wild-eyed as a witch on a broomstick, in her waking moments hearty and chin-up as a Girl Guide leader -with prodigious humor and bounce...