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...disliked the Germans. The first action of the Italians was to give a small banquet in honor of their prisoners. Boyd and Leeming were then installed in a large mansion in Catania. Distressed by their bad luck in being captured, the commanding general took them for an occasional cheering spin through the vicinity in his car. At their next place of detention, a villa near Sulmona, they were allowed to stroll at pleasure through the countryside, guards at a polite distance. During these walks the local peasants would invite them in for a glass of wine...
...doctors have learned to spin the rats on a special centrifuge. When G is high enough (19 Gs or so), the distorted rat is doused with liquid nitrogen, which quickly freezes him. Then the doctors can open him up and find where his organs were when G was pulling at them...
...Wild Heart (Powell-Pressburger; RKO Radio), a picturization of Mary Webb's 1917 novel, Gone to Earth, lets passion spin the plot in turn-of-the-century England. Jennifer Jones is a simple child of nature who likes to cuddle up with her pet fox. Just when she has settled down to a calm marriage with a parson (Cyril Cusack), along comes Squire David Farrar, a virile type, who whisks her off to his outsize estate. But Farrar has a crude habit of fox hunting, so Jennifer soon cools toward him. The ending is drenched in predictable melodramatics...
Done right, Beatrice and Benedick can carry off a play that Shakespeare didn't always do right by. But last week's production, which closed after four performances† completely lacked spin and sparkle. Claire Luce played Beatrice as officiously and coyly as an old maid who has just announced her engagement; Antony Eustrel's Benedick was all O-what-a-gay-dog-am-I. And under Eustrel's direction, the rest of the play offered such tripping and gurgling and spouting as today are banned from high-school auditoriums...
...Staten Islanders will be captained by Cecil Rhodes, a famous "spin bowler," and star of Lancashire country cricket...