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This bit of tomfoolery manages to be engaging and downright funny in spots. Beauteous Miss Carroll's virginal retreats from the ruttish advances of her pursuer are performed in her best peaches & cream manner. But the script seldom rises above its morass of cliches, damp gags, trite situations, and occasional touches of propaganda. Mr. MacMurray's noisome conception of a vigorous American is on:: that most Americans would like to keep tied up in the backyard...
...action. To Fort Belvoir, Va. went lisping, begoggled Comedian Ed Wynn and other performers to donate their talents to an outdoor entertainment. First, it rained. Then an Army announcer spieled off 15 minutes of credits-for everything from the work of the Citizens Committee to the stage planking. The damp audience groaned and fidgeted...
...marrow curdling wing that sprang up early in the afternoon, bringing with it damp and chilly weather almost worthy of a Yale weekend, set the stage for last Wednesday's final day of a six weeks' spring football season...
Worse than the police was the cold prison. Young had nothing to sit down on but the damp cell floor. At last Ambassador Grew sent Young his sealskin-lined overcoat. Grew is over six feet tall; Young, much shorter. When Young turned up the coat collar, he was covered from head to foot. Young soon discovered that the Ambassador's coat gave him a certain diplomatic immunity. "As long as I had it on, the police would recognize it as Ambassador Crew's property. Removed, I was just another reporter." Young never took it off, wore it even...
Captain Don Donahue was the only other Mikkolaman to take a running first. Despite the cold, damp track, Donahue won both hurdle races in good time: the 120-yard highs in 15.1 seconds and the 220 lows in 24.5. Don MacKinnon seconded both, equalling Donahue's high time in his heat attempt...