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...solved them by backing out the family automobile, crossing his fingers and heading for the open road. Whatever else happened, gas pumps were full. Highways were acrawl with cars. By summer's end, 60 million people would have made trips in 20 million automobiles. But for all this brave show, motoring in 1946 was not unlike motoring in the day of the Stutz Bearcat. Motors failed. Tires collapsed. Lodgings were hard to find. Many a family took a tent and a gasoline stove and were glad of it; all learned to hunt tourists camps at noon, get up before...
...horrors of war-corresponding behind her, had turned to lighthearted comedy. With ex-Correspondent (Looking for Trouble) Virginia Cowles, the author of The Trouble I've Seen had written a play that London seemed to like-Love Goes to Press, full of untrustworthy male correspondents and brave and beautiful female correspondents...
...nose run when your feet get wet? Your feet don't run when your nose gets wet." Typical Beery haymaker: bulging the screen full of a face as massively seamed as a relief map. There is also an Indian raid, during which Miss O'Brien routs a brave with a peashooter. Because enough people enjoy that one, Bad Bascomb is already on the lists of box-office bests...
...despite brave attempts at a Yale game and a pre-war atmosphere, Harvard College was almost as insipid and hollow a place during the fall term as it had been from 1943 on. The turning point came on the warm autumn day of Friday, February 1, when 1200 veterans, new Harvardmen and old, marched through Memorial Hall, bought their combined SERVICE NEWS-CRIMSON subscriptions, and added new flavor to a stale Cantab brew...
...note, but declared that he was positively not disconcerted. The threatening note ran; "Pay $50,000 or we will kill you or your wife at a certain date. . . . You will be contacted as to where the payoff is to take place and when. Revised Capone, Inc." The extortionists, theorized brave Boss Crump, "know that an election is coming on and are hoping to disconcert me. But it will have no effect...