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...Force Chief of Staff Hoyt S. Vandenberg: The provision of a reasonably adequate air defense system is not possible under our present program . . . The strength of our Air Force at the present time is not sufficient to continue an all-out air war lasting more than a few months...
...Hiya, Dollface!" Betty's all-out assault on an audience is a trademark that she carries into every appearance, public or private, that might conceivably make the world more Hutton-conscious and thus advance her career. Her clarionlike entrance into a restaurant ("Hiya, dollface! Hey, got my table?") is one of the digestive hazards of eating out in Hollywood. During a wartime bond tour, she stole the headlines in most of 20 cities from a trainload of more prominent stars by rushing to kiss the mayor on arrival; in one city she had to leap onto a police motorcycle...
Recent government refusal to release three C-4 type passenger vessels to the United States lines dims he prospects of an all-out student migration to Europe this summer. This firm operated these "emergency class" vessels last year under charter by the government...
...even among the French workers who call themselves Communists. Most of them are Communists for revenue only: they strike for wages, but they will not strike for Communist political objectives. Although the French dockworkers' union is supposed to be 100% Communist-dominated, the Reds are failing in their present all-out drive to have the dockers refuse to unload ships with U.S.military...
Philip and Mary announce their engagement, but they are no match for Mama Weatherby, who doesn't want her son to marry anybody as dreary as Mary is. While pretending to plan their marriage, she subtly sabotages it. Meanwhile she makes an all-out play for her old flame, Pomfret, with cozy dinners, warm reminders of old excitements, heartbreaking tears and a comfortable readiness to be kissed at the right moment. At the novel's end, Mary and Philip have gone off in different directions, but their elders are floating in the old euphoria...