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...staff of ten at Grand Island will check between 300 and 400 wireless and broadcasting stations during a 24-hour working day. Not only will the wave wobbling of U. S. stations be detected but those in Canada and Mexico will be watched to see they do not creep out of the channels allotted them by international agreements. Entertainment programs will be brought in to evaluate their public worth, though no censorship will be attempted. Before long an automatic recorder will probably be set up to take down programs as part of each station's official record...
...play is adapted by able Kenyon Nicholson from the novel of Helen Zenna Smith. It is concerned with the activities of an English woman's ambulance unit. Early in the play the atmosphere of reminiscence begins to creep in when Kit (Katherine Alexander), weary and broken in spirit, bitterly denounces the hypocritical idealism that the home folk maintain about the War-suggestive of similar sequences in Suspense and What Price Glory. Also, as in What Price Glory, there is a good deal of hysterical cursing of superiors. And as in Journey's End there is a member...
...wanted them to remember how gallantly Tanga's land forces had defended their little fort in 1914, how they had defeated the British East African Expeditionary Force with heavy losses and made the wounded British lion creep ignominiously away! Banquet guests woke the echoes with Hoch! after Hoch! bellowed tearful choruses of Deutschland, Deutschland Über Alles...
...stands in front of the Paramount and Lafayette theatres after the midnight show break, Small's and Connie's Inn (Harlem night clubs) after 2.30 a.m., and lower Fifth Ave., but at no such spots are public stands allowed. Enterprising independents instruct their drivers how to creep by the choicest spots in the city at the proper moment...
...examination by his Channel Tunnel Committee (TIME, March 24) the Cabinet has finally decided not to build one, although this project has been urged and argued in and out of season for more than 50 years. Reason: fear. The English are still afraid that a sneaking French Army might creep among them in the night. Said Le Matin of Paris, last week, in a jocular editorial: "If the British do not want us to pass under the Channel, we will fly over...