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...orders as she eats. It is 7:15 p.m., and often later, before her powder-blue, Government-owned Cadillac pulls up in front of the Connecticut Avenue apartment where she lives (along with such other tenants as the Alben Barkleys, Senator Eugene Millikin, Justice Tom Clark). Then, after a shower and a light supper, there is homework. Most nights, Oveta Hobby is hard at work until midnight...
...Korea is the musical combo. Combos are made up of six or seven men; their equipment consists of piano, drums, clarinets, trumpets, saxophones, bull fiddle (with rifles, bazookas, stretchers and ammo boxes in emergencies). Fighting men are likely to find a combo blasting away almost anywhere -at the shower tents just behind Old Baldy, at the medical-clearing stations where the litters are coming in fast, at the rest-area hoedowns helping G.I.s cut an Oriental rug with Korean belles decked out in latest Sears, Roebuck couture. And wherever soldiers find a combo, they keep it busy...
...They can simulate an eclipse of the sun, complete with corona and Baily's beads. They can work up their own thunderstorms: dark clouds move across the dome as lightning flickers and thunder rumbles in the public address system. Added switches on the control panel can send a shower of meteors drifting down the sky. Fireballs flash and explode overhead...
Niagara is, of course, a cheap picture. There is a cheap song, "Kiss," for Marilyn to breathe convulsively. And even talented Joseph Cotten gives a cheap performance as Marilyn's shabby husband. But Niagara does have its highlights; and everyone will have his own favorite scene: red dress, shower curtain, blue dress, negligee...
...line coach had wandered back to the locker room. "We've got all kinds," he said. "Fencers, swimmers, they all wander up. I've get a few slacker-offs, but most work at it pretty hard." He unlaced his shoes and headed for the shower...