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Even more important than sounds in the night is the jargon of the police. Instead of the familiar "Calling all cars," Dragnet uses the duller but truer "Attention all units," making sure that it is accompanied by a rush of air through the microphone (called a "squelch"), because most police radio dispatchers' are not educated in the genteel phases of commercial broadcasting...
...court last week sentenced Lieutenant Szipzr to loss of his office and four years in prison. He would have a duller time than his former charges...
Thereafter, as Margaret and Dean get sweeter, the hokum gets thicker and the film duller. Together with a little Yorkshire lad (Brian Roper), they discover a mysterious walled-up garden and start remaking it into a brilliantly Technicolored bower. They also succeed in reclaiming crusty old Herbert Marshall for a sunny, tear-washed finale...
...Chicago Daily News had reached an alltime circulation high (505.277). Fortnight ago, the Trib had turned out the fattest daily paper (84 pages) in its history. But if newspapers looked much the same as in pre-strike days, they did not read the same. By & large, stories were duller, staler and skimpier...
...fare. Every hour he opens his eyes to watch the students walking by between classes. He's not unusually conceited for an owl, but he can't help thinking that they're not so wise as he is. Why don't they get rid of a few of the duller professors, in keeping with God's Law of course, just to see what would happen...