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...discover a new subject, the first few pictures were rather good, simply because they were a change from the regular Hollywood diet. But inevitably the change came; the plots became stereotyped, the characters lost originality, and all in all the pictures became the ordinary run-of-the-mill Hollywood corn...
...Confirm or Deny" is the perfect example of this corn, it has all t he ingredients. First of all, there is Don Ameche, who plays the role of a hardboiled American reporter in London during the great German air bombardment of September, 1940. He is all that Hollywood expects a foreign correspondent to be--which is more like a side-show barker than anything else. And although to some people his jowls and teeth make him look like a Walt Disney rabbit, especially when he smiles, he can probably be considered handsome in the bargain. Then there is Joan Bennett...
...from starch. But in spite of our "vast and untouched" resources it is the United States and not the Axis which feels the pinch. We have been depending mainly on sugar as the source of the mow scarce starch, gathering only one per cent of the possible yield from corn. An attempt not so long ago to industrialize potato starch was ruined by foreign competition which our neighborly State Department encouraged. Germany, on the other hand, has stocked up with the stuff by barter, and Japan and the Dutch East Indies have plenty...
...Many dental researchers are sure that this excessive proportion of sugar accounts for the fact that caries (tooth decay) is the commonest U.S. disease. Fruit can satisfy the craving for something sweet, and the chemistry of the saliva and the digestive juices automatically convert the starch of bread, potatoes, corn, etc. to the sugars the body needs...
Saint-Exupéry brought plane and crew safely back. His gas and oil tanks were pierced, but the rubber lining sealed them. He also brought back a personal proof of the profoundest of Christian texts: Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone, but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit...