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...ever seen an airplane, even on the ground, then you've seen about half this three hour naval recruiting poster. And the half you haven't seen is even duller than the half you have. Errol Flynn as a Harvard-Hopkins-Cambridge graduate is pretty and occasionally (three times to be exact) is amusing. Fred MacMurray and his two he-man buddies after razzing and then getting to like Flynn, M.D., all die in crashes. We hoped that Flynn did, too, but didn't wait...
...grown like a beanshoot under the smart leadership of young, tense James B. Carey, who is also secretary of C.I.O. and very close to C.I.O.'s ailing President Murray (wh hates Communism with a pungent, Catholic fervor). The electrical union was held up as an example to other, duller unions. Only one thing marred the picture. It was infested with Reds...
...Diamantopoulos, routed to Athens via Siberia, found the tedious ten-day train ride much duller than Odysseus' wanderings. From his window he saw no Sirens, Circes or Cyclopes, only desolate sidings and troop trains drumming west...
...Post which he has tentatively titled Money in the Bank. His main worry was that he had not paid his U.S. income taxes. When he was told that Ernest Hemingway had a new book out about the Spanish Civil War, he observed scornfully: "I can't imagine a duller subject...
...brought to the President as he sat in the long ballroom of the Willard Hotel, surrounded by newspaper veterans, bigwigs from all over the U.S., Washington officialdom, the diplomatic corps and all the quasi-humorous paraphernalia of the semiannual Gridiron dinner. The dinner had been the same, the entertainment duller than usual. Massachusetts' tall young Republican Senator, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., had spoken for the Loyal Opposition...