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...fancy for films of violence in the "Double Indemnity" or "Postman Rings Twice" mode may or may not be a passing one; while it lasts, at least, "The Big Sleep" should hold its own among the rest --clarity and the critics notwithstanding...
...battle, for he believes that America cannot develop as a free nation either by subscribing to the pious faith in the lasting effects of revolution, or escaping into the enervating and oftentimes reactionary cynicism. Rather than the sentimentalist or the cynic, he calls for a hard-boiled idealist "whose mode of action is in terms of the calculated risk and who, in order to calculate that risk, prefers to talk in terms of concrete and limited objectives...
...reply to an investigation of a complaint that Fiske's charged 15 cents extra for pie-a-la-mode, Mrs. Fiske said that she had to pay $4.00 more a jug for cream, raising her bulk price of ice cream to $1.00 a quart...
...players in "Bigger than Barnum," Miss Jean Mode and Miss Patricia Neal, will assist in the judging. The feminine trio is expected to arrive at the Square at 4 o'clock. A modest parade of two automobiles and a truck will convey the actresses from Radcliffe down to the Yard, and thence will wend its way among the Houses, winding up outside the Pi Eta Club at 4:30 or 4:45 o'clock...
Fiorello LaGuardia, the new boss of UNRRA, tried to do his bit. After busting protocol in Washington to hurry necessary grains to central Europe, he unloaded all his fiery wrath on those people who still insist on eating pie a la mode. Cried he: "Those people, why they simply have no hearts at all. Belly Americans, that's what they are. Fat, rich, gooey pastry in these times! What we need here is a pastry holiday...