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...part of a campaign to push Larry Kelley sales over the top, the original of the cover of the current Saturday Evening Post has been placed in the window of Brines on Massachusetts Avenue...
Thus with a vigorous push Franklin Roosevelt undertook to turn the scales of public opinion, scales that for weeks had maintained a queazy balance between moral indignation at ruthless international aggression in Spain and China and a feeling that the U. S. must not soil the spirit of peace by taking even a moral stand. To add weight to the push, he quoted from James Hilton's Lost Horizon a grim passage describing what the world may have in store...
Farewell Again (London Film) expertly applies the Grand Hotel idea to a British troopship. The 23rd Royal Lancers, homeward bound on H. M. S. Somersetshire after five years in India, are informed by wireless that they are to have but six hours ashore in Southampton, must then push off again for patrol duty in the Near East (''Sorry men, but if we're going to own an empire, we've got to pay for it"). Well-managed cameras bustle about sketching, vignetting, peering into lives affected poignantly, happily, comically, by this upsetting circumstance, bring each little...
Sold to a standstill in the six-week slide that lopped off more than a year's gains, the stockmarket steadied last week, then rebounded feebly. By now it was crystal clear that whatever gave the market the first push downhill it would not have slid so far on a false alarm. But the market's barometric value is limited. It seldom indicates how much it will rain, or how long...
Dave Simboli and John Johnson scored goals in the second period to give the Crimson a 2-1 lead. Staging a second half push the Textiles finished in front although Johnson scored again in the third quarter...