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Actors Hepburn and Tracy have a fine old time in Woman of the Year. They take turns playing straight for each other, act one superbly directed love scene, succeed in turning several batches of cinematic corn into passable moonshine. As a lady columnist, she is just right; as a working reporter, he is practically perfect. For once, strident Katharine Hepburn is properly subdued. When she met her leading man for the first time, before shooting began, she observed: "I'm afraid I am a little tall for you, Mr. Tracy." Said he: "Don't worry, Miss Hepburn...
...best supply line that the Greeks have had in the last months has been a little Turkish steamer, the Kurtulus, which sailed weekly from Istanbul to Peiraeus with wheat, corn, vegetables, dried fruits and a few medicines. A fortnight ago the Kurtulus struck a reef just off the Turkish coast and sank...
...Committee: no law, he said, stopped him from unloading Government stocks, at Government prices, privately, for the war needs of other Government departments. He could have his surplus wheat made into bread to feed the Army & Navy, his cotton into sheets and shirts to sleep and clothe them, his corn into alcohol for their shells. When the Senators were still skeptical (the price bill prohibits "sale or disposition" of Government-held stocks except as provided in other limiting acts), he said he "understood" that the question had already been referred to Attorney General Francis Biddle for a ruling...
...Parity is the price at which a bushel of wheat or corn, or a given amount of other farm produce, buys as much (in factory goods, taxes, etc.) as it did in the farmer's prosperous 1909-14 period...
...Queens) apparently spent a million or so dollars trying to repeat his former success in turning Marlene Dietrich into the screen's No. 1 siren (Blue Angel, Morocco, etc.). He succeeds merely in making Gesture an unexciting series of close-ups of Miss Tierney, a nice, pretty, corn-fed American girl of 21, who is too young and inexperienced for her part...