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...commandeered for a hospital in 1946, she decided to organize a singing group ("Music has a beneficial influence on children"). She gathered children of local railroaders, lumber dealers, locksmiths, mechanics, polished up the kids' piping tones until they became as smooth as their scrubbed faces, and as crisp as the little girls' curtsies. The late Poet Dylan Thomas, who might have made a crackerjack press-agent if he had tried, called the Obernkirchen girls "angels in pigtails...
Jimmy is now twice as hot for revenge as before. He trails Nicol into town, thrashes him and then pitches into Nicol's keeper, Arthur Kennedy. This brawl is suspended by the arrival, in turn, of Nicol's father (Donald Crisp), who owns all the country for miles around. He offers to pay damages for the mule train if Jimmy will just leave town. But then, where would the picture be? So Jimmy sticks around, makes mild love to Cathy O'Donnell, outfights a treacherous assailant, shoots Nicol in the hand, exposes Kennedy as a seller...
ARMED FORCES The Reactionary Last week nearly 100 young men in crisp white uniforms stood on the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy grounds at Kings Point, L.I., raised their right hands and fervently swore their allegiance to the U.S. and its Navy. In the ranks was handsome, 21-year-old Eugene Landy-and he kept his hands stiff at his sides...
Among the witnesses was stocky, crisp-talking Samuel E. Ewing, general attorney for R.C.A.'s manufacturing and services divisions. He told of a meeting early last December with Talbott's partner, Efficiency Expert Paul B. Mulligan, to discuss the possibility of an R.C.A.-Mulligan contract. Said Ewing: "I endeavored to explain to Mr. Mulligan the problems that we saw in the situation ... He said that he was no lawyer and he did not want to get into that with me. He asked if I objected if he called Secretary Talbott. I said I did not object...
...image-converter is essentially a booster for light. In a vacuum tube, photons of light strike a cesium-antimony photocathode, which in turn gives off high-speed electrons. The electrons are accelerated through an electric field, hit a sensitive "retina" screen or a photographic plate, and etch out a crisp picture. Used in celestial photography, the image-converter proved impractical. Reason: water molecules in the photographic emulsion reacted with the cesium, destroyed the unshielded photocathode...