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...home some shrunken human heads from Peru. The memory of those heads, he claims, has prevented him from collecting anything himself-except facts about collectors. For the past seven years Douglas Rigby and his wife Elizabeth have been collecting just such facts. The result is a 517-page book, chock-full of photographs and line drawings: Lock, Stock & Barrel (Lippincott; $5), the first such history ever compiled...
Hail the Conquering Hero (Paramount), the newest cinematic caprice from Preston Sturges (The Great McGinty, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek), beats a satirical tattoo on the American small town. But it tells a story so touching, so chock-full of human frailties and so rich in homely detail that it achieves a reality transcending the limitations of its familiar slapstick...
There were good diplomatic reasons. The U.S. had never signed the Montevideo Treaty of 1933 which recognized the right of asylum, long traditional in many Latin American countries, but now outmoded in most of the world. Salvadorians, chock-full of U.S. democratic propaganda, did not understand the refusal. They took it as one more example of U.S. support for dictators...
...women are concerned there are two types--Genus Coed and Phylum Bostoniensis. Boston and New England are chock full of women's colleges. While trends of thought in recent years have been along the line that most of these homes of happy hunting were accessible only by way of automobile, delving and dredging since the recent rationing program have revealed that the railroad companies have laid branch lines from South Station even to Northampton, Norton, and South Hadley...
Home last week from a 20,000-mile jaunt through the U.S., South America and England, bland, bulky Paul Weeks Litchfield, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.'s big-framed president, was chock full of war and postwar plans. Said...