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...sometimes in the dory of Manuel (Spencer Tracy), the Portuguese crew member who boat-hooked him from the liner's creaming wake, always beset by the wild and hairy faces of these shipmates whose lives, like their bodies, had been twisted into frightening shapes by their long combat with the sea. Harvey begins his quest for something he can chart a course...
...dollars. Blithely C.I.O. appropriated $500,000 for its textile drive, announced it had a war chest of $3,000,000. Observers believed A. F. of L. unions would soon have to raise dues to make up for revenues lost by C.I.O. defections. U. S. organized Labor's mortal combat, anticipated for two years (TIME...
...Thunder Over Mexico and Head Over Heels in Love (TIME, Feb. 22), is Elizabethan sword & cloak drama, showing how the Spanish Armada was frustrated by young Michael Ingolby (Laurence Olivier) while Queen Elizabeth (Flora Robson) was feeding porridge to doddering Lord Burleigh (Morton Selten). In a hand-to-hand combat between Michael Ingolby and Michael Strogoff, the correct odds would be even money. In addition to burning the Armada with the aid of seven men in rowboats, Ingolby escapes from a Spanish galleon, sails in a fishing smack from Spain to England, foils an attempt on the Queen...
...most impressive of them was the final scene in the combat between Rustum, the veteran paladin, and Isfandiyar, the youthful hero. In the picture, which is considered a masterpiece of this early Persian style, the human tragedy is conveyed solely by the pose of the two figures...
...Cavalry brigade. After concealing canopies were put up at the doors of the baggage cars, long Army trucks backed up to the spur track to be loaded with the 400-troy-oz. bricks. As each truck was loaded it was convoyed by two of the Seventh Cavalry's combat cars on its brief trip to the squat depository building. Few days later the process was repeated as $120,000,000 was shipped from the U. S. Assay Office in Manhattan...