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...first time this year, the white ball was put into play as darkness decended on the practice field and the Varsity seconds experienced one of the longest and hardest workouts of the season...
...this everything, M.G.M.'s Lady Be Good has salvaged only two of the Gershwin melodies: the title song and Fascinating Rhythm. Around these still glittering butterfly relics three studio scripters (Jack McGowan, Kay Van Riper, John McClain) have spun one of the longest, dullest plots in many a cinema season...
...Navy gets no draftees, requires its regular volunteers to sign up for six-year hitches (longest Army tour for volunteers: four and one-half years). Despite this stiff requirement, the Navy is already doing very well, recruiting at the rate of 10,300 per month. To run this up to 15,000 it is expanding an experiment in small-town newspaper advertising for recruits. Test advertisements in Missouri, Iowa, Indiana doubled the monthly enlistment rate in those States, will soon appear in 13 more States (Nebraska, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi...
...China hands who were left took no comfort from their drinks at "the longest bar in the world" in the Shanghai Club, but they were determined to stay until the bitter end, until actual war made them move. For a storm warning they looked to Shanghai's famed Fourth Marines. So long as the U.S. kept the Marines in Shanghai, die-hards reasoned they would be safe...
...endless stream of endless picaresque costume novels that sprang from the huge success of Anthony Adverse (1,224 pages) and Gone With the Wind (1,037 pages), this one has two distinctions. It is one of the longest (1,176 pages) and it is Viking's first gamble with this gargantuan species. Being in other respects no better and no worse than other imitators, it spreads sail before some of the steadiest book-trade-winds that blow...