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Threatened with a potential lag in essential war production, grave-faced officials of WMC, WPB, Selective Service and Army & Navy met hurriedly last week in a Washington office. Their problem: to devise rapid ways & means of giving the nation a new "sense of urgency." The trouble was partly of their...
The picture has one glaring fault: it is far too fond of reproducing, by direct quotation, samples of the worst of the careful but uneven prose in which Raymond Chandler wrote the original thriller. Aside from that it handles Chandler's extremely cinemadaptable story so well that, if anything...
At first the German artist was unwilling to give up his profitable business in sea creatures for the new and uncertain field of flowers. Finally, however, the Blaschkas sent several samples of their work to Cambridge for a closer inspection of their possibilities. Although almost all were destroyed at the...
Since he fled from his sinister home, Dr. Petiot had joined the resistance movement, got himself commissioned as a captain at Valmy barracks under the name of Henry Valery. Police caught him by comparing a letter written by F.F.I. Captain Valery with samples of Dr. Petiot's handwriting. Dr...
Irrepressible Bennett Cerf, president of Random House, has pasted together six anthologies in eight years (including The Bedside Book of Famous Stories, The Pocket Book of War Humor). Now he has made a 378-page collection of his favorite jokes and anecdotes. Samples :