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...Mass. Avenue news store, which was the main local outlet for the paper, took it off the stands over two and a half years ago. The 25 sales made per week did not make up for the consistent criticism the proprietor received from patrons. Soon after it disappear from Felix's stand. The Capitol News Company, distributors of the paper the Boston area, stopped delivering Cambridge. "There just wasn't enough demand," said a Capitol spokesman...
...History Unveiled. Then the script changed. Slansky did not disappear. He was "promoted" to Vice Premier and given control of all Czech economic affairs. He continued to get a big play in the Czech press. On his soth birthday last July 30, he got the Order of Socialism from Gottwald. Only last month the government unveiled with a flourish Slansky's two-volume history of Communism...
Most of these fads and fancies were duly reported by Popular Mechanics, a lusty new magazine, whose editors ignored Einstein and took a dim view of the horseless carriage ("Not that the time will ever come when ... horses [will] entirely disappear from boulevard and town . . ."). They had more faith in lighter-than-air craft than they had in airplanes. They recorded the invention of perpetual motion machines and the impact of the telephone on the Turkish harem...
...cartoonist's view of the army. There were the gags about KP, guard duty, and the soldier whose wife turns up in the WAC's. But as you thumb through this handsome book, as Mauldin's outfit moves from training stateside to Sicily, then Italy, the top sergeant gags disappear. Instead there are the drawings that eventually took Mauldin away from his division and gave his a job doing them full time--the wry drawings of tired, unshaven men, fighting a tough and unglamorous war, of muddy soldiers sleeping on their feet, kidnapping replacements, fighting from mountain to mountain...
...production can be criticized for a few scattered slow moments, some of which combine to hold up the first act. These, however, are quite infrequent, and they may well disappear as the current run lengthens...