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...double-entendres pile up like cordwood, with hardly a spark of fun. In spots, without risking originality, the songs and dances give the movie some zest. Too often they display the outworn grotesqueries of Carmen Miranda and the excessive juvenility of Actress Powell. Occasionally, to denote conscious hamming by members of the heroine's acting fam ily, the soundtrack breaks into a few pompous bars of Wagner. It is not much of a gag, but it is a handy guide to the intentions of the players...
Mello should pile up points in his specialties all season without much trouble. Bob Lown is a capable understudy for Mello. Will Van Epps is another broad jumper...
...moment Fuchs stood still in the dock, then a warder tapped him on the back and he turned, mechanically tapping his yellow note sheets into a neat pile which he slipped into his coat pocket. As he left the court, for the first time since he had faced justice Fuchs's pale cheeks showed spots of color-of excitement or possibly of shame...
Last week the laboratory showed off some new and weird equipment designed to make isotope production both faster and safer. The isotopes are made by a chain-reacting pile in a pale green, blocky building. Some of them are fission products that accumulate in the pile's uranium fuel. Others are formed in aluminum cans of raw material "cooked" by the pile's neutrons...
Cooling the Cans. When the cans first come out of the pile they are fiercely radioactive. Men with long poles flip them into thick-walled lead tunnels to cool off. After eight hours, most of the aluminum's short-lived activity has died away and the cans' milder-mannered contents are safe enough to work...