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...Southern California Broadcasters' Association, sat down with Mayor Fletcher Bowron to have a try at settling the matter. After due consideration, the jury and mayor plumped for the soft "g." From now on, if their decision is respected, it will be "Loss An-ju-less," not "Loss An-gu-less...
...expense), during which he saw that tuberculosis is still riding high and fast in almost every country, Dr. O'Brien is convinced that the only hope of wiping out the disease lies in mass vaccination with the vaccine called BCG (for bacillus of Calmette and Guérin, the French scientists who developed it from 1908 to 1924). But health officials in the U.S., O'Brien charges, have neglected using BCG "through ignorance of its efficiency and misunderstandings* regarding its harmlessness...
With her looks, voice, sense of fun and a kind of invincible girlishness, Actress Fabray not only reflects what is bright in the heroine's role, but also slides over what might well be embarrassing. Greek-Parisian Actor Guétary, cast as a Hessian officer who joins the Americans and wins the girl, is in the approved style of European-operetta tenors, with both comic and romantic virtues and a good schmalzy voice...
...Gu-ut" grunted the Russian, wrinkling his nose. "Nimm mit," and he gave the bewildered prisoner a gentle shove toward the sidewalk...
...Party Ba Gu is Party jargon. It combines hackneyed language with unfamiliar terminology. ... In our drive to build the Party to 100,000 let's be on guard against Ba Gu. . . . When Communists are accused of being dogmatic by sincere persons what is often meant is that our correct thought is so wrapped up in the language of Ba Gu that we are simply not understood. Ba Gu is harmful to the individual, harmful to our cause and must therefore be exterminated...