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...nine days the S.S. Akbel had followed its secret, zigzag route. To reach port, the battered little steamer had to duck patrolling British warships, steer clear of British radar stations ashore, elude R.A.F. planes on 24-hour alert. Last week the Akbel made harbor in Haifa, Palestine. Among 1,100 "illegal" Jews who stepped onto the Promised Land, all but one were refugees...
...places and gasped at the low cut dresses of pre-Will Hays days, our hearts went out to Mother Marx, who, patiently and understandingly reared and molded four heterogeneous scions into a quartet of the laugh-makingest zanies ever to be rolled onto the American scene. The scene is "Duck Soup...
...Duck Soup," which bests Lowell House Puree Mongol four reels to the wind, even has chuckles left over for Edgar Kennedy, who, for the first and last time finds himself on humorous celluloid. The Marx Brothers, happily caught in the revival cycle, have been racing through a cinematic renaissance. No serious student of Comparative Comedy can afford to finesse this eighty-minute demonstration of diplomatic rompings and political perambulating. Groucho, as Rufus J. Firefly, premier of Freedonia, involves himself in an international embroglio from which not even a rapier-keen cigar can extricate him. His butt is Louis Calhern--since...
...Duck Talk. The word was passed, "Thirty minutes to go." Around the world ordinary men & women, who would be the casualties in an atomic war, bent their heads and cupped their ears to radio sets to catch this preview...
...history's fourth explosion of nature's fissionable elements, this time a precise, scientific evaluation of the bomb's destructive force applied to naval surface craft riding "dead duck" at close anchorage, three ships went down, a fourth was missing and 32 others were scorched, set afire or twisted in hull or superstructure...