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...gentleness, meaning, sadness-the journalists are tougher, the scientists more cruel and smug. The use of Art Baker to play bleating Gabriel Heatter is a master stroke. But Alexander Hall's direction, less nimble than in Here Comes Mr. Jordan, fails to make these ingredients do more than crawl about. Almost never do they get up on their good points and dance...
...steps toward the east. Why? Because the earth's rotation in that direction makes it easier. Suggested Volf: "Just try to call a child who has begun to walk in the easterly direction. If you are west of the child, he will stop, sit down, turn around and crawl back on all fours...
Ickes' Petroleum Reserves Corp., which had worldwide plans until the pipeline set Congressional hatchetmen to work, likewise appeared to be going nowhere. PRC had lost its key personnel in the exodus of businessmen from Washington (see Transition). By last week it appeared that PRC might crawl under the headstone with the pipeline...
...Tokyo press next day: "It was high time that sirens sounded again, because the majority of Tokyo's population had become indifferent to air danger and had neglected preparations. . . . Some of our citizens still seem to have rather thick skins. Let them wait until . . . they have to crawl on their bellies in water-filled trenches; they'll quickly drain them...
Every Brazilian present quivered when the President proudly said: "May God's blessing go with you, as our spirits and hearts go with you." Said a correspondent who heard Vargas at his oratorical best: "It was enough to make your flesh crawl...