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...Thin Man. If you haven't, you must. It's as tight as the book and moves with a drive which insures that its charm is never static. Everything in this picture seems always to be in mad, advancing motion: elevators, eyebrows martinis--all pushing to the final clinch. The movie looks wonderful, so does everyone in it. When Myrna Loy wrinkles her nose it makes you wait for weeks to see a girl at a party who's got that talent. Nick and Nora Charles, it's repeated often, were modeled on Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman. That spirit...
Only Todd Lundy and Dan Waldman, playing second and third, respectively, came close to stumbling. Their matches went to three sets before the Crimson netmen could clinch victory. Junior Waldman staged an especially strong finish, polishing off his pesky opponent...
...Wynn described freshman Diane Olney's performance as "one of her best" as she pasted Val Tebbetts 7-5, 6-2 for Radcliffe's only victory of the day. The jubilation was short-lived as Yale's Sarah Coal buried number six Andy Okamura 6-3, 6-0 to clinch the match for the Elis...
...Lockheed scandal (TIME, Feb. 23), was charged last week with doing some palm greasing of his own. The Netherlands' leading newspaper, Amsterdam's Telegraaf, implicated Bernhard in a $12 million bribe paid 25 years ago to the late dictator Juan Peron and other Argentine officials to clinch a $100 million railroad-car contract for the Dutch firm Werkspoor. The bribe, which was authorized by the Dutch State Bank and approved by the government, also included the gift of a deluxe presidential train for el Lider and $12,000 in jewelry for his second wife, Evita...
...made of the project. It is only the first of a number of technological quests for new uses for the nation's most abundant fuel. Eventually, one of them will surely pay off. When that will happen, no one now can guess. At that point, however, coal will clinch its title among fuels as the once and future king...