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...common Nazi practice of simply segregating communities in which epidemics broke out and leaving the inhabitants to die had resulted in entire villages being wiped out by typhoid fever...
There was nothing sensational about these actions. This was typical: Henry Wallace, a pleasant-appearing, embarrassed man with an honest eye and a slight touch of hay fever, drove into the farming community of St. Peter, Minn, to campaign as the Democratic nominee for the Vice-Presidency. A Democratic National Committeewoman lives in St. Peter; nevertheless something had gone wrong. St. Peter citizens did not know the candidate was in town, did not even know that he was coming...
...leads Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy, two wildcatters, on an exciting chase from Oklahoma and the tropics, to California, from poverty to wealth, back to poverty more times than you can count. The details of a raw, booming oil town, Burkburnett, are interesting and well-handled: the oil fever, the gushers, the fires, and above all the incurable wildcatter, always sure that his ground covers oil, always looking for a partner who will stake him. When MGM sets out to tell what has been done about oil in this country, they do it, and no mistake...
...aerial Pasteur, Paul Muni was so nervous that he couldn't face a mike until a messenger was sent to his home for a violin. After sawing quietly away for a few minutes, Muni got a grip on himself, went through his act without a hitch. Another mike-fever victim was pop-eyed Joan Crawford, who was so scared during her first performance that she had to remain seated through it. As part of his job as Lux Radio's sage, De Mille has to calm such agitated performers. His favorite actors among those who have appeared...
...well-meant admonitions about his "duty," his "opportunity to serve," and so forth, the deside to escape will become well-nigh overwhelming. A "tonight be merry for tomorrow we die" spirit, never wholly absent in the college community, will feed on just such a desire, until it rises to fever pitch...