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...general Saturday's Children is about a family of drab but amiable nitwits, the Halevys, who exist in a railroad flat on the wrong side of Manhattan's subway tracks. In particular it is about the underprivileged romance of pretty Bobby Halevy (Anne Shirley) and Rims Rosson (John Garfield), a shy, lovable, half-educated, half-awake johnny who invents gadgets that never work, dreams of going to Manila to try to turn hemp into silk. Father Halevy (Claude Rains), a bookkeeper, has spent a lifetime working himself into an insecure rut at a mail-order house. Mother Halevy...
Bald, cob-nosed Designer Teague has been beautifying machine-age gadgets ever since 1928, when Eastman Kodak Co. hired him to spiffy up its then drab-looking cameras. From cameras. Teague went on to magnifying glasses, mirrors, telescopes, binoculars. Steuben glassware...
...drab backwash of the '80s in downtown Minneapolis one day last week went erect, seamy-faced Mayor George E. Leach. At the corner of Fifth Street and Hennepin Avenue, clangorous with streetcar traffic, he stood up before a nostalgic crowd. Said he: "I was here when the first brick was put in and I am here now to take the first brick out." Then, with a crowbar he pried one from the façade of an imposing seven-story Moorish-Victorian pile...
...Fleet Sir Dudley Pound, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon and First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, who made a stirring speech in which he invoked the shades of Drake and Raleigh, praised the action as "a flash of light and color" in an otherwise drab war, prophesied that it "will long be told in song and story...
Author Steinbeck's big problem in writing Of Mice and Men was to make U. S. lower depths realistic without making his novel drab. Even harder was to make his mangy bottom-dogs plausible and pathetic without making George and Lennie's relationship grotesque or gooey. Author Steinbeck made loneliness the common human factor of all his bindle stiffs, made their loneliness as vast as the western mountains they work among, but made them express it only in two-syllable language as mean, hard and sometimes as foul as their semisavage existence. Result...