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With a combination of a murder and gangsters for background and a fancy roster of big names in comedy for decoration, "It's in the Bag" trailing behind Fred Allen all the way, makes its audience laugh three hours but is still only a second-rate mystery-comedy. eon...
...Loves of Beethoven" could be a great deal better. Although it achieves full realization of the horror of a great composer going deaf, its over-done dramatics of a death scream, and conflicts d'amour cause what could be a film classic to fall for short of its objective. eon...
...size they are somewhere between living bacteria and lifeless molecules, and they share some characteristics of each. They crystallize like lifeless matter, but they also possess the astonishing ability to reproduce themselves like living organisms. A virus "generation" probably lasts for only 20 to 30 minutes, so that an eon of virus evolution can occur within a few years on the human time scale. New and fiercer breeds of virus can thus develop from time to time, then vanish. Doctors believe that the virus which caused the worldwide influenza plague of 1918 is still with us, but the once deadly...
...Road is suddenly being fingered as quality merchandise. Hollywood's new theory is that people have just got to see a movie made from the play that has busted all Broadway records. Meanwhile Tobacco Road, which fancies it is good for another two years on Broadway, and an eon on the road, feels it can afford to sit tight until it fetches a big fat price...
France's suave Joseph Paul-Boncour sat at one end of a long table, Britain's Anthony Eden at the other. Their lunch eon guests were the delegates of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Spain, Switzerland, The Netherlands. Early last week this group of neutrals had gone to the dingy Hotel Richemond and into the bedroom of rawboned, learned Dr. Peter Munch, Foreign Minister of Denmark. To them Dr. Munch pointed out that the Sanctions question and the Rhineland occupation had a definite lesson. It was time for the small neutrals to stop being the witless tools of France...