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...much suspense, but they may stay interested just wondering what the dimwitted, unprincipled characters will think of next. They think of a good many things, mostly criminal. Almost as soon as Edward G. Robinson spots Joan Bennett underneath a street lamp, cinemaddicts will be able to predict the general course of events, right up to the final shriek. By the time Robinson tries to hang himself from the light fixture of a cheap hotel room, most audiences may be sick & tired of all the scheming characters and their doomed, impractical schemes...
...this activity was an effort on the part of Democrats to oust Republican Governor Earl Warren and his protege in the Senate, young Bill Knowland. While Senator Knowland seemed vulnerable if hit sufficiently hard, no Democrat in his right mind would yet predict shrewd, able Governor Warren's defeat...
...added Educator Brebner, are "stupid"-most Canadian scholars and teachers are paid so little "that a very large proportion of their potential usefulness is continuously being poured down the sewer of . . . drudgery and hackwork for other income." Thus they yield quickly when American universities and laboratories beckon. "One can predict the uproar in the press and parliaments of Canada if the United States tried to buy a single Canadian island. . . . But the never-ending loss of scholars passes without comment...
...officials predict that G.C.A. will be a valuable aid to commercial and private flying-as soon as the new system is coordinated with other blind flying aids such as radio beams and airborne radar...
...that Tugwell would teach political science and direct a new department of civic planning there, starting next July 1. His job, says his new boss, Dean Robert Redfield, will be to develop planning as "a science instead of guesswork . . . [to provide] special research instead of hunches, for instance, to predict population changes . . . [to] develop a coordinated view of the community as a whole...