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...much fervent fans owe to these and other experts of the lens is Holly wood's well-guarded secret. But many an idol stays at the top of the heap because of their magic. They know they must avoid oblique angle close-ups of Clark Gable so that his sugar-bowl ears won't predominate. They quickly learn that a new comer like Ingrid Bergman must be shot from the left as her face is expressionless from the other side. They are careful with close-ups of older beauties like Claudette Colbert and Marlene Dietrich, keeping them motionless...
...history of 1940 has taught, among other melancholy lessons, that valor plus vigor do not equal victory. While they took heart at apparent successes, responsible Greeks thought that if their country was to survive despite the odds, it would owe its survival to British assistance and to Italian asininity. And responsible neutral observers could not see how either could be great enough to give Greece anything but a reprieve...
...Form 1040. Said C. P. A. Lasser: by upping their advertising costs, typical corporations can reduce by 24% to 60% the size of their tax payments next March. Sample: a firm netting $50,000, of which $25,000 is in the "excess" brackets, would (using the "average-earnings" option) owe $14,312 in taxes. By spending an extra $25,000 for advertising, this firm could reduce its tax bill to $4,152 (the normal tax on $25,000 income). Profits, of course, would also be reduced; the tax saving is merely a discount on the cost of the advertising...
...press this point of view. The very history of the Mississippi Valley has proved that the people who dwell here in the South and West have been true exponents of American greatness. They recognized that the destiny of this country lay in an expanding vision. To that view we owe the way of life we now applaud...
...Brilliant Chinese leaders by the score owe their education to American universities. A chief official of the Chinese information ministry, Hollington K. Tong, is a graduate of the journalism schools of the Universities of Missouri and Columbia. Our schools of journalism have had more effect, proportionately, on Chinese newspapers than...