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...picnic had everything. Two mixed softball games, badminton, tennis matches, singing, and just sitting around on the porch and giving with "scuttlebutt." The boys and girls had supper, too, served by the Radcliffe's dining service, with coats split fifty-fifty...
...could have knocked Frank Hague over with a split ballot. In his 26 years as Mayor of Jersey City, he had done more than his bit to establish himself as the U. S.'s prime suppressor of civil liberties. His hired thugs made an almost ceremonial fox hunt out of chasing labor organizers and, especially, Communists out of town. Now the Communists swore they loved him. The U. S. press laughed itself silly...
Trickiest stunt Wolff used was to split a full-faced picture down the middle, reverse one half and match it with the same half by montage, so that the picture was composed of two right sides or two left. The right side, he found, tends to be dominant, gives the face its most characteristic expression (the mouth usually is most expressive...
...haberdashing showman who is bound to worry the discriminating by tearing the passions of jazz to tatters. Lena Horne sings with high lavender virtuosity, and audiences will divide on whether she is truly elegant or merely too refined. Katherine Dunham's pretentious ballet troupe is also likely to split the vote...
Tempo, Timetable. Long John's speed and success come from his habit of planning everything to a split minute. His "muck trains" tote out debris on a rail road timetable basis; his sweating rockhogs know exactly how far they must bore. (Long John expects to get through in four months.) To help his men Long John several years ago designed and built a huge, seven-ton drill carriage which uses six bits instead of four. Added incentives are high wages and bonuses, three-shift operations. Most effective of all, Long John is the kind his men understand...