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...took into custody a modern exemplar of this excruciating old breed. Officer Gardner got his evidence by spending an evening with one eye glued to a crack in the window shade of Peter Gorgak's barbershop on Third Avenue. Through this peephole he could see in the barbershop mirror an incongruous sight: Mr. Gorgak sitting in his own barber chair having his teeth drilled and dentaled up by a stranger...
...players, be compelled to walk on the road again, only to jump clear of a rash driver, and so on down the road between a double line of huge lorries, where men played cards sitting on petrol tins, shaved with a mere drop of water, using the small windscreen mirror to see how they were progressing, and washed clothes in about one pint of water to a whole packet of soap powder...
Meanwhile, with the exception of the Daily Herald, the Daily Mirror and the Yorkshire Post, Britain's newspapers had to rely on news-agency coverage or ignore the convention altogether. But T.U.C. held firm. Said its shrewd general secretary, Sir Walter Citrine: "It is quite clear that an attempted boycott is in operation. . . . Freedom of the press is interpreted by those newspapers as Freedom to Suppress...
Wearing an immaculate uniform and mirror-shined boots, stiff, grey Colonel Gerhardt Wilck approached the commander of the U.S. attacking party - a 21 -year-old lieutenant. The young American took the elderly German to U.S. headquarters...
...Doughgirls (Warners) tardily, joins the overcrowd of comedies about overcrowded Washington, with more than the usual number of fake marriages, misunderstandings, eccentric bit-players, and mirror mazes of French-farcically-slamming doors. Doughgirls Ann Sheridan, Alexis Smith and Jane Wyman and would-be Husbands John Ridgely, Craig Stevens and Jack Carson, are joined in their already overflowing "bridal" suite by such incongruities as 1) an exuberant Russian lady sniper (Eve Arden), who insists on firing three-gun salutes out the window, 2) a pompous bureaucrat (John Alexander), who is investigating a process for turning soy beans into auto fuel...