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Easy to fly on wheels, floats or skis, with a 1,875-lb. work load and a maximum 630-mile cruising range, the Beaver is an ideal frontier plane. Canadian bush airlines clamored for them as soon as the first one came off the assembly line in 1947. De Havilland sold Beavers in Finland, Indonesia, Colombia, Malaya, Rhodesia and Chile. Now better than half the plant's entire output (currently 12 planes a month) will be delivered to the U.S. Army and Air Force...
Faithfully Yours (by L. Bush-Fekete & Mary Helen Fay; produced by Richard W. Krakeur) is one of those bits of fluff that are also fiends of dullness. It concerns a psychoanalyst who persuades a bird-brained wife that there is something unhealthy about her happy marriage and faithful husband. The worst thing about the play isn't that it never comes within hailing distance of satire, but that it is altogether stupefying as farce. And to the claptrap of Broadway, Movie Actors Ann Sothern and Robert Cummings add all the coyness of Hollywood...
...Washington last week, that eminent scientist, Dr. Vannevar Bush, was called to the telephone by a reporter who wanted guidance on what the new Russian atomic-bomb explosion meant. "I'm listening to the World Series, as you should be," retorted the doctor hurriedly. He added, politely: "Giants ahead, six to nothing," and hung up. Once more the U.S. celebrated the seven days of the long lunch hour, the surreptitious telephone call, the quick office bet, and-to feverish New Yorkers-of the hunt for the ducat, the pasteboard, the seat at the game. BASEBALL FEVER, the sports pages...
...Cuff. Cary knows what he is writing about. During World War I he fought through the Cameroons campaign as an officer in a Nigerian regiment, later became magistrate of a district deep in the bush. Of the four novels that have come out of his African experience, Mister Johnson is the best, at once humorous and sympathetic, fresh and exuberant as Negro gossip...
There is no point in beating around the bush. "The Golden Horde" is a terrible movie and just about everything in it is terrible...