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Needless to say, then, as a source of humor No Time for Sergeants is practically a goldmine. Military life is always a ripe target. But the show's dialogue needs tightening. It continually seems poured in around the catchy scenes and clever jokes as a filler, like cement. Funny situation are set up too obviously. The dialogue holds together only through the skill of the actors, who manage to prevent the humor from degenerating into slapstick...
...insurance companies to newspaper chains. Son of rich parents who had lost their money, he says he made his first killing before he was 19 by cornering the Bombay gold bullion market. By 1937 he had made and lost three fortunes in speculations and won a hold on a cement factory, the foundation of an industrial empire that burgeoned mightily during the war. "During the war years, I earned money through sinful ways," he confessed later...
University officials have grasped some initiative by requiring all students to register their autos with the Yard police, and more recently by enforcing this rule. Lots handling over a total of 1,000 cars have been set up and little signs have blossomed in cement directing drivers please not to park here, there, and everywhere on University property, especially without permits. But the lots are full, the signs are ignored, and the streets crowded with thousands of illegally parked cars...
...Plastinail, a flooring compound that Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. processes out of Douglas fir bark, flows like cement, then hardens, can be nailed like wood...
...Safeguard of Character. In the course of its inquiries the committee came across a lot of evidence to confirm what every experienced serviceman and ex-serviceman knows: that pride in one's unit is the cement, whether at base, in the line, or in P.W. camps of Korea. "Many servicemen exhibited pride in themselves and their units," the committee reported, discussing the one encouraging portent of the P.W. camps. "This was particularly pronounced where they had belonged to the same unit for years. They stood by one another . . . If a soldier were sick, his fellow soldiers took care...