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...most convincing proof that the Poon is treading on thin ice was furnished by the three dimensional map of the Cambridge area in 1775 on the first floor of Widener. This shows a small pond where the Hygiene Building is now. A stream emptying from this pond runs down Dunster street and cuts right across the site of the Lampoon building...
Cashier Lloyd loosed his bonds in a few minutes and called Boston police. The first officers arrived in two minutes. The clues were thin-one of the robbers' caps, the rope used to tie the clerks, a fingerprint on a patch of adhesive tape. The holdup men had casually walked through five doorways, at least three of them locked and one supposedly guarded by a watchman behind bulletproofed windows. (It was his night off, police explained later.) The robbers were either very lucky, or had inside help, or both...
...Tiny, thin-faced General Hsueh Yueh is known as China's Little Tiger. Thrice he clawed the Japanese at Changsha in 1941. Now, on tropical Hainan, the Little Tiger watches the weather with a prayerful eye. It is the season for fogs. Usually they roll in from the mainland, and this season they could cover a Communist invasion armada. To prepare Hainan's de fense, Hsueh says he needs "just one month more...
Dance Me a Song (produced by Dwight Deere Wiman) is a professional-looking revue that uses an amateur-night technique. All sorts of people have "entered" individual songs and sketches in the show; and whether from too many cooks, or mere incompetent cooking, Dance Me a Song makes very thin broth. For awhile it can just manage to be termed uneven; by the end, there is no kinder word than weak. The show boasts a batch of sprightly and likable young people, including Dancer Joan McCracken. But youth at the prow can seldom prosper without ability in the engine room...
...consumers' research institute, into Dennis Morgan's top-secret navy sea tractor. Jane's reputation in her job depends on proving that she was actually underseas with Morgan, Morgan's on suppressing the film she shot in his craft. Most of the gags are pretty thin, e.g., a safecracker trying to open a sardine can and a lady who has lost her left shoe trying to cross a hotel lobby. But chiefly, the slapstick potboiler is saved by unpretentious acting and the leisurely direction of Michael Curtiz...