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...Rosary (M.G.M.) by Lloyd Douglas again, opens with a dead Marine captain who wears a rosary, flashbacks to Italy to tell each bead of the rosary's, and hero's, history. Prospective budget...
...target through the cross. The sun, shining through the sight, makes a cross-shaped spot of light (B) on the signaler's hand. When the mirror is tilted so that the reflection of this spot (C) coincides with the cross itself (A), the signaler has an exact bead on his target...
...bridge, Executive Officer Roosevelt saw a gunner whose pants were rolled up, told him to get them down to avoid flash burns from enemy fire. The gunner had a bead on a bomber and could not comply; so Roosevelt unrolled one pants leg for him. At that moment a bomb fragment removed the gunner's other leg; Roosevelt suffered a slight hand wound. Big Pancho gave the gunner morphine, applied a tourniquet, lugged him below to sick bay. Says Reynolds: His crew worship the guy. They say he's terrific in combat...
...stern critics of the cinema Coney Island will be just one more tin bead on the rope Hollywood never ceases to string. But cinemaddicts who pay to get in will go easier on it; in fact they will go for it. Many cheap baubles have lovely sides in certain lights: this one shines irresistibly in such scenes as a brawl in a Coney harem. Here all the succulent paraphernalia of 1905 eroticism get heaved about in fearful confusion-carved brass hookahs caught in ripped gauze, brocaded draperies from the mysterious East, feathers and chandeliers, pillows of plush and satin, even...
...France there were no balloons for sale at the Rond Point on the Champs Elysées, but youngsters still sailed their boats on the Luxembourg Gardens pond. In the southern provinces housewives hung wooden-bead curtains over the doors to keep out the flies...