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...radical memory devices are coming along fast. Among the more promising are "memory tubes." One type, developed by Professor F. C. Williams of Manchester, England, uses a thin beam of electrons to print meaningful dot-numbers on its flat end. They can be used in the machine's calculations and erased electrically in a few millionths of a second...
...comedy based-a long way off base-on Nicolay Gogol's satiric Russian classic about the impostor who helps some corrupt officials outsmart themselves. Watered down and gagged up as it is, Gogol's idea is still engaging, and Comic Kaye is man enough to make even thin material look nervously good...
...providing a channel for opinion to flow from workers to management. Opinion, says he, is like water-it flows easily downhill, but it takes a lot of pressure to pump it up. Modern workers get a cataract of managerial opinion in bulletins and house organs, but only a thin dribble of their opinion is forced up to management...
...Intense, thin-faced May Foster hopes to go into a convent, but she is waiting for a year to wind up their worldly affairs and make sure her husband is well started on his new road. Says the wife who may never see her husband again after this week: "Some people think I'm terrible, letting him go off like this after all these years of marriage, but it's God's will. Besides, if I could give him to his country, never knowing that he'd get back from the Leyte invasion...
Today, with his appearance in a picture reckoned as a guarantee of a $2,500,000 gross, Wayne is spreading himself so thin that he is behind schedule at Republic, RKO and Warner-each of which holds him under contract. One day last spring no fewer than nine first-run Los Angeles cine-mansions were showing John Wayne pictures. The payoff is handsome: Wayne averages more than $5,000 a week, gets 10% of the gross on films he makes for grateful little Republic...