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...good war news last week insinuated its way even into the drab and cautious mathematics of the Bureau of the Budget. Emerging from his annual midsummer inventory, stocky, able Budget Director Harold Smith announced that at least $3 billion can now be shaved off U.S. war expenditures by the end of the fiscal year, June...
...start Janie (Joyce Reynolds) likes to doubletalk and to schmooze with drab civilian "Scooper" Nolan (Dick Erdman) at blanket parties. Then the Army arrives, to use Janie's home town as a base for maneuvers, and Janie puts away childish things. Thereafter Private Dick Lawrence (Robert Hutton) maneuvers exclusively with...
...taken in by adjectives. To Party workers, after he became the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee, he said simply: "I am a work horse." The description was apt: it covered his principal virtues, which are industry and loyalty; and it covered his principal defect, which is a drab mediocrity...
...muggy. Mining families, staring from the windows of their shabby-colored clapboard houses, were pleased to see the black clouds rolling up, with lightning flaring off in the distance. They hoped for a storm, as people do, to break the humid spell. At 8:30 p.m., in the 25 drab company houses that front on U.S. Route 19 as it climbs through Pleasant Hill, W. Va., supper was over, the dishes done, and the youngest children tucked away in bed. At 8:50 the windows rattled menacingly, like a snake giving warning. At 8:51 the storm came...
Among the ruined olive groves and the drab, pathetic rubble of small Italian towns, exultant Frenchmen with glittering eyes were rubbing out the memory of June four years ago. Down the dusty, twisting road from the ancient hill village of Esperia, toward Monticelli and the pockmarked Liri Valley, buzzed a jeep with the shield of a general of France. "Voila le grand Charlie!" sweaty Frenchmen shouted to one another, and froze in proud salute...