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...Shanghai and elsewhere for their failure to frighten and befuddle the U. S. and disorganize the Chinese in the occupied areas. The Japanese and their hirelings are today waging a personal war upon those heroes of the American press-Randall Gould, J. B. Powell, T. H. White, Tillman Durdin, Arch Steele and Hal Abend...
...music comes not simply from the screen, but from everywhere; it is as if a hearer were in the midst of the music. As the music sweeps to a climax, it froths over the proscenium arch, boils into the rear of the theatre, all but prances up & down the aisles. The hazy orchestra begins to dissolve, and weird, abstract ripples and filaments begin an unearthly ballet in Technicolor...
When his heart contracts it throws a load of blood forward toward his head. "For the same reason that a discharged gun kicks one in the shoulder," said Dr. Starr, "the recoil throws the body feet-ward." An instant later, when the blood strikes the aortic arch (curve in large heart artery), "[the blood's] headward movement is arrested, creating an impact which throws the body and the table headward...
Still, there was something lacking. Said the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune: "The President cried 'Liar!' thirty-two times, and never mentioned the third term once...
...Among his performing cats a trainer named Tetchow once had a tom who streaked up a rope hanging from the proscenium arch, got into a parachute basket, floated down to the stage...