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Hollywood can't resist throwing in a little war drama these days, even when Deanna Durbin's the better half of the oil and water combination. Universal's number one box office attraction plays the part of a China missionary's daughter who brings a band of orphans, (the boys are cute and the girls are mournful), to America. The recent best-seller "Keys of the Kingdom" won our hearts on behalf of Chinese missionaries, and there is absolutely no reason for disliking their daughters. But the story doesn't begin to perk up until Barry Fitzgerald arrives...
...state here, and with the greatest emphasis, that if, at the conclusion of war, our rights are not respected and our long and passionate devotion to freedom is not taken into consideration, all Poles, irrespective of religious or political creed, will be united to the last man to resist any claims which aim at the sovereignty of our country, from whatever quarter they might be raised...
...about 23 per cent which is of course only an approximation at best since the temptation to play around varied with the questions. However, this estimate from the negative point of view ties in with the positive example of the aforementioned Casey Jones, where 31.5 per cent couldn't resist...
...about 23 per cent, which is of course only an approximation at best since the temptation to play around varied with the questions. However, this estimate from the negative point of view ties in with the positive example of the aforementioned Casey Jones, where 21.4 per cent couldn't resist...
...beginning, few men who wrote the news, and fewer still who broadcast it, could resist the purple technique of dire warnings, manic-depressive cycles, sweeping prognostications. Many a news commentator offered his audience little more than a 15-minute nervous breakdown. Not so Elmer Davis. His voice was calm, incisive, with a Hoosier twang as reassuring as Thanksgiving, as shrewd as a small-town banker. (He did not at once recognize his voice's value, offered to take speaking lessons; CBS officials fortunately knew better.) He never interpreted, colored or predicted: the grist from his mill was fact, ground...