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...dive-bombers, after separating so that they could descend from different angles, gunned their motors and, each in his turn, started down. From the ships below burst upwards an inverted torrent of anti-aircraft projectiles. . . . Within a few minutes, in Berlin, Hermann Göring was hurrying to tell Adolf Hitler about results which were later flashed to the world in these words...
Victor, in a reassuring note to its dealers, says that the Red Seal sales will be affected little if any by this innovation--that the "true" record buyers are "name-conscious" to such a degree that for a few paltry dollars difference they won't descend to buying classical works rendered by competent but less famous musicians and recorded with slightly less fidelity. It feels that the new series will mean larger grosses and gradually build up public taste to a degree where they will go one step up to Red Seal...
...actors work fluently with the verse; keeping its essential character without ever letting it descend to self conciousness. Benjamin Britten's score, too, provides a coloristic background for the play. To single out any of the performers for praise is practically impossible; the entire cast is magnificent. Leonard Kent as the hero Michael Ransom performs beautifully in a gruelling role; Earl Montgomery as Lord Stagmantle and Jervis McMechan as Ian Shawcross also give outstanding performances. As a last word, one must mention the impressive sets and stagings. Ransom's death-dream is a triumph of direction...
Unless drastic steps are taken, a plague of rabbits will soon descend upon the University...
...coffins at a funeral parlor. For Billy Rose, Maney concocted an advertisement for "100 bona fide noblemen" to serve as dancing partners at Rose's Fort Worth Frontier Centennial. "In answering," read the ad, "submit photographs in uniform, with orders, ribbons and decorations evident. . . . Bogus counts, masqueraders and descend ants of the Dauphin will get short shrift...