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Because its makers took extraordinary pains to be faithful to the intricacies of show business, the show business in Yankee Doodle is extraordinarily good. So is its Grade-A cast, especially Oldtimer Huston and a pretty newcomer named Irene Manning, pleasantly singing and playing the ex-Broadway musiqueen. Fay Templeton...
...nation had changed its definition of illiteracy. In 1930, the Census listed as "illiterates" those who could not read or write (4.3% of the population); in 1940 it dropped the reading & writing questions as no longer significant. Now educators class as illiterate adults who failed to finish the fifth grade (13.5%). The Army uses the same yardstick...
...Jersey's ex-Governor Harold Giles Hoffman, who shed nine pounds a week for four weeks to get into active duty as a major, made the grade on his second physical examination, was ordered to report at Colorado's Lowry Field this week...
...first hit the headlines, had almost forgotten there was such a thing in prospect. If it is really going to stand on its own feet after the war it will have to be a wonder of low-cost smelting efficiency, for the Bolivian ore it will handle is strictly grade B, and the British-Dutch tin cartel is no mean competitor...
...some minor bad news from Bolivia. Now that the Japs have cornered 90% of the world's tin supply Bolivia has regretted the 50? a lb. delivered price that looked so good before Pearl Harbor. Bolivia is now talking 60? at the embarkation point. Before the war high grade Straits...