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...Hollywood. A new, if feebler, edition of that pious fraud, Elmer Gantry, with a touch of Berzelius Windrip, the magnificent Lorenzo plans a Technicolored crusade to convert America to the gospels of Culture and Leadership, meanwhile scooting across Europe and sweeping up historical tidbits as with a vacuum cleaner. Lorenzo also sweeps up Olivia. Hayden falls into the eager arms of Roxy Eldritch, a freckled, redheaded home-town girl with a pert tongue, a figure that no man can keep his hands off, and "the voice of a bird flying at dun twilight over the western plains...
...typical Schott deal was his purchase late in 1949 of the Royal Vacuum Cleaner Co. for $2,000,000. By vigorously pushing low-priced lines and reorganizing distribution, he increased monthly sales from $500,000 to $1,000,000, paid back the $600,000 he had borrowed from the bank in five months. He has his own rule for financing a new business: clean up the bank debt by the end of a year with profits from other companies...
...tank gun is tops at lashing shells point-blank into enemy-held caves or tunnels. Some infantrymen swear by the twin 40-mm. antiaircraft gun, mounted on a halftrack. Said one colonel: "They're just ideal for those Korean hills-they go over them like a vacuum cleaner...
...Bingham were asked, it is fairly certain that he would point out that we've got nothing against Notre Dame. The academic standards are above reproach and we would be inclined to think that they are cleaner regarding athletes than most other schools...
...than Siberia. "The Gestapo men . . . were still bound, if ever so loosely, to the judicial traditions of a civilized country, in which . . . an offender had to be formally charged and brought up for trial." If camp discipline was more fanatical, at least the food was better, the huts were cleaner, and the working day was shorter. But Nazi savagery soon showed its mad face. Periodically, groups of the sick, the aged, and such "racial inferiors" as Poles, Jews and gypsies, were marched off to the gas chambers. Young Polish girls were isolated in the camp hospital and used as guinea...