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...industry weathers it all nicely, though, having found profits like 1944's 90 millions (exclusive of expenses) an effective cushion against the drubbing of its critics. Of course it is occasionally stirred to mouthing sleepy tongue-in-check rationalizations about how soap operas and "ugly-plugs" are the mandate of the people and an affirmation of the democratic mode; but 90 millions is after all a powerful soporific to even the most outsized social conscience...
...usually-calm, blue eyes would blaze indignantly, though, if anybody tried to tell him how much sawdust was needed to best cushion the loam in the jumping and vaulting pits. He knew how much was needed, and for years he had charge of the pole vaulting pit at the big indoor invitational track meets in Boston Garden. He remembers every detail of Dutch Wamerdam's record-breaking hoist of 15 feet, 7 1/4 inches...
Responsibility for working a way out of the bust has been left squarely in the hands of business. A presidential suggestion for industry-wide negotiations for a slash in prices, to cushion their effect, ran into an opinion of the Attorney General that any such agreements would run counter to the Sherman Anti-Trust Law and would be illegal. Since they cannot do it collectively even in the public interest, business men will have to act on their own, in self interest. The nation can only hope that their self-interest operates quickly enough...
...bottom of his brain. It allows the very basis of his thinking a cold, immediate access to the facts of living. Certainly few entertainers are so comfortlessly close to reality as Allen; still fewer are crowded so hard by sanity. Often his wit appears to be a cushion against hard fact. More often it seems an act of reprisal. He hurls it, rich with cyanic rancors, in the face of sham wherever he sees it. Of a male celebrity who strode into church one midwinter morning wearing sun glasses, Allen grated: "He's afraid God might recognize...
High spot of the evening was Willie Hoppe's famed nine-cushion shot, in which the ball travels more than 40 feet. What baffled Professor Moore was that on the sixth and eighth cushions, the ball both lost and gained velocity. The fact is, Professor Moore discovered, that when Hoppe cued the ball with English-as any poolroom fan could have told him, though not in so many words-he gave the ball rotational energy as well as its usual translational or rolling energy. When the ball's spin slowed, the energy was turned into forward roll...