Word: dolefully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Wendy Hiller, 31, British stage & screen star (Love on the Dole, Pygmalion); and British Playwright Ronald Gow, 46, who co-authored Love on the Dole: a second daughter, third child; in London...
...WAVES have already taken over many shore jobs for the Navy. They dole out pills with a big smile in the Naval hospitals, take over desks all over America to let their male shipmates go to sea. The WAVES run control tower, pack parachutes, service planes, run ship stores, keep pay accounts and in general make themselves useful...
...pompous, dark-skinned Couturier Poiret was an autocratic extrovert, lived like an Oriental potentate in a Paris house bedecked with ibises, parrots, monkeys, half-naked Negro guards. In 1929 he went bankrupt, for a time was a Paris department-store designer at $4 a dress, finally went on the dole...
Britain's Problems. Economically, Britain is a factory. Under war controls its efficiency has improved enormously. Britain's problem is to slip into peace without sacrificing this wartime efficiency. Only so, if at all, can returning veterans avoid the dole; only so can at least some of $2,600 million of war-built, publicly owned factories be put into peacetime production; only so can the Beveridge plan become much more than dream security...
...core of the story is the irreducible faithfulness of Lassie, a fine female collie, for young Roddy McDowall. Lassie is sold by the boy's father, a dole-starved Yorkshireman, to a dog-fancying Duke. She is mistreated by a vicious kennel flunkey and twice breaks out of her kennel to come home. Then Lassie is taken far north into Scotland, escapes again and heads south with the homing infallibility of a pigeon. Starving, drenched, flinching at thunder, her feet bleeding, Lassie beats her homeward trail through some of the most pleasing Technicolored landscapes of the year...