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Martin Dies, redheaded, brassbound Congressman from Texas, vexed by Walter Winchell's sour comments on the "unAmerican activities" of Dies's Committee on Un-American Activities, took to the air to call the columnist a "tool [of the] smearbund," proceeded to do some smearing himself. Under Blue Network rules. Winchell could make no fresh charges until Dies answered his old ones. Dies didn't. They met in the studio after the smearcast, grinned like happy pseudo-warriors. Winchell: "Let's get together and tell some more lies about each other." Dies: "I'd have...
...Determined air-raid wardens and plane spotters are buying binoculars (except those which meet Navy specifications) and telescopes. In Washington (where pawnshops are illegal but "secondhand merchandise establishments" carry on just the same) antiques, glasses and brassbound telescopes that had been in hock for decades are being snapped up by a rush of buyers...
Star of the serial is brassbound Mickey Rooney. In Courtship, Mickey is a big boy now, working, paying for his board, enjoying his father's (Lewis Stone's) adult confidence. Somewhat subdued, Mickey acts his age, cuts his mugging and scene swiping to a pardonable minimum...
Until the brassbound car conductor came
Captains Courageous, a dry-docked, refitted version of Rudyard Kipling's brassbound tale, relates two stories. One is Harvey's finding a model for living in the person of his friend. Manuel. The other is the We're Here's battle for her cargo, and her race home against the Jenny Cushman. Either alone would have made a good picture. Together, as luminous on the fantastic seascape of the banks as lightning on a ship's masthead, they make a fine one. So magnificent are its sweep and excitement, so harmonious its design, that Captains...