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...lids shut heavily. It was only eleven o'clock, but he'd been up for five hours now. Stan and Don had gotten him up at six. They'd gone over to Hayes Bick for breakfast, sort of a testimonial dinner on toasted cinnies. Cinnies and Bickford's brought back a lot of things. Then over to PBH at 7:30. Vag waited outside of Local Board 47. A silent walk over to the island in the Square, trying to think of something important to say. Nothing. Hurried, cold handshakes. "Don't forget to write," Vag had said. Then...
...Those hills are the toughest sort of going," said Patton in his room at head quarters. "A few men holding good positions are the hardest to lick. We can't kill many of them. They must have gotten their mortars in there with mules. I'd give anything for one good pack." On the third day the infantry commanders told General Patton they would be able to complete their assignments that day. General Patton ordered his armor forward. The infantry felt their urgency too strongly and pressed on too fast on the hillsides, not taking the very tops...
...Administrator since last December, the nation's food distribution had veered from confusion to possible disaster-a fact highlighted by last week's nationwide meat shortage. The farmers had wrought a miracle of production last year, hoped to create another this year. But from Washington they had gotten everything but help...
Shadow of a Doubt (Teresa Wright, Joseph Gotten; TIME...
Starring Paulette Goddard, Ray Milland, and Virginia Fields, this pie boasts a plot that is serewy with a left hand thread. Goddard is a stranded gal who works in a shooting gallery and doubles up for a crooked fortune teller, who has gotten Ray Milland in trouble. Paulette falls for Ray, and without letting him know she is now the "globalonier," gets him out of the situation, finally wianng him from Virginia. Fields. Bill Bondix, who slugged Alan Ladd into the "Land of Nod" so brutally in "The Glass Key" is good as a comic chaffeur. With its unique plot...