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General Jarman has a reputation for being one of a rare Army breed: a first-rate Army politician who is also a first-rate soldier. His main job perforce is at his desk in headquarters at Quarry Heights (Balboa), but he gets out often into the field, in rainy season can wade and ride the muddy trails with the toughest...
World War II, Dunkirk, the capitulation of the Belgians-all, according to More About Nostradamus, were foretold. But the quatrain which heartened last week's cinemagoers most was the final one: "At last the two leaders shall be disjointed by the hunt, by a humane rule of Anglican breed, the daughter of the English Isles shall re-establish unity, justice, shall lock war within its bars." Interpretation: The U.S. will win World...
...visit to the Government's research farm outside Washington, 18-year-old Ann Wickard, daughter of Agriculture Secretary Claude Wickard, grabbed a jolly springling porker of the latest bacon-plus breed, thrust him squealing into the sun light for all to see his streamlined hams...
...sixty in the whole Five Nations to lay venison and beads at her feet. Singing opposite her in the role of Jim Kenyon, Alexander Grey is a somewhat lesser figure, but quite good enough in his own right. The dances of Grace Poggi as the sensuous young half-breed girl leave little more to be desired, especially the well-known "Totem Pole" number. All in all, "Rose Marie" is still very pleasant escapism for a troubled world...
...ranching industry. Theirs was "the greatest, the most extraordinary, the most stupendous, the most fantastic and fabulous migration of animals controlled by man that the world has ever known." They gave character to a wide new country, grand as Siberia; they gave soul and shape to a new human breed, the Texas cowboy. Says Author Dobie: "I do not believe that any kind of riding will pump virtue into a man like that in pursuit of wild, strong, mighty-horned cattle plunging for liberty or just walking like phalanxes of destiny towards the tail end of the world...