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When the buzzer sounded, two pilots, bulky in their flying gear (pressure suit, parachute, oxygen mask, survival kit, maps), dashed toward two long, lean F-86D fighters. In two minutes they were surging down the runway with a crashing roar, and two more jets rolled into position for takeoff. Before their wheels were fully up, the lead pair were getting radio orders and a fix on the suspect plane. Interceptor pilots can open fire at will against any aircraft they believe to be hostile. Identifications are quickly made in daylight; at nighttime, pilots buzzed by suspicious jets are quick...
...part of an outlawed noble returned to his ancestral manor with the same dash he might have shown had he though it much mattered. Fortunately, it doesn't, because the foot-stomping music, broad comedy, handsome characters (with a few grotesque ones for conventional spice0 and universal high spirits mask the blankness of the plot. In all, there are few musicals with so much to recommend them and such a paucity of flaws...
Tasteful borders of carved wooden or plaster masks, expressing the emotion under examination, would have really done wonders for the film. In future, this is the direction that wide films should take. Carved decorations in the awkward borders, for one thing, would relieve actors of projecting emotion. Henceforth, when a pretty young friend of some producer wants to register anger, instead of furrowing her generally marble brow, she need only point, with languid grandeur, toward the appropriate mask. Her charm need not be destroyed by the necessity of acting. This could mean great things for the future of television...
Charlie Flynn, now equipped with a complete face mask after several puck mishaps last year, will probably start in the goal against Northeastern. Close behind him and still very much in the competition for the starting post, is the '53 freshman squad's outstanding goalie, Jimmy Bailey...
...before travelers, and sometimes believed by them, is of a land where burdens have eased and coercions lessened, where silk dresses and TV sets for the masses are either in the stores or just around the corner. But last week Russia's new rulers publicly let the smiling mask slip. Items...