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...Production Chairman Donald M. Nelson last week had surprising news for the U.S. people. The U.S. civilian economy, which during the year has seen the manufacture of not one new civilian automobile, refrigerator, washing machine, alarm clock, trouser cuff, radio or many a smaller doodad or furbelow, has been cut about as deeply as it will be. The problem now is to simplify, standardize, produce more of the things Americans must have from the materials and manpower now available...
...that Egypt's plight was almost as desperate as when the German charged into the El Alamein funnel. He was still there, he was always dangerous, he was nearly intact. Moreover, he had a card up his sleeve, and it was sticking halfway out of his green gabardine cuff: parachute and glider troops concentrated in Crete, ready to help him by an assault from the rear...
...Frank Capra, Leo McCarey, William Wyler, etc.), Stevens learned his cinema technique on the roughhouse, two-reel comedy lots, where everyone from prop boy to producer had a hand in the story and no one knew how it was going to end. That is known as "shooting off the cuff," and Stevens does just that today with most of his pictures...
...Roosevelt had a few old friends in to dinner. They included members of the "Cuff Links Gang" (who had campaigned with him back in 1920, when he was running for Vice President). He cut his private birthday cake, bearing just 21 candles, tuned in on an hour-long nation-wide broadcast to hear welders sizzling in factories, riveters clattering, presses crunching, a chorus singing Yellow Rose of Texas. Said he into the microphone himself: "In the midst of sorrow, suffering . . . and death . . . the day itself and the evening have brought with them a great reassurance. ... I am very sure that...
...Princeton button has been designed. It is a tiger head with "Princeton" engraved on the cuff...