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While many a faster, flashier cousin was earthbound last week for lack of targets, the C-47 creaked in slow circles over enemy territory as the girls broadcast a steadv chatter to the Communist soldiers below. Unperturbed by the heavy flak which broadcasting planes invariably draw, the two girls talked about hardships on the front and the spring planting that was being neglected back home...
They can afford to kill off Peter Lorre in the first fifteen minutes of Casablanca. That's how good it is. Ten years of flashier and more expensive movies leave this picture still on top. It is tough, cynical, sentimental, and maudlin, a slick movie about refugees and black marketers that somehow is better for its slickness...
Depreciation of the Pith Helmet. The rubber boom and less spectacular booms in tin and pepper have bounced salaries and wages all along the line. The rich are spending their money on bigger and flashier cars (a Rolls-Royce is no rarity...
...general publishing community. It is important both in volume of business and in the number of titles issued annually. Still more significant, the Press produces titles of quality, value, and influence in a coat-ridden field where commectal publishers often push aside good books for works of a flashier nature and greater sales potential...
...meter dash, broad jump, shotput, high jump, and 400-meter run. He failed to place first in a single event that day (though he tied five men in the high jump), but he was never out of the running either; the young giant hovered just behind the flashier winners, steadily piling up points. Bob Mathias (rhymes with defy us) was in third place when he tumbled into bed that night...