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...er-Do-Well. In Houston, police pieced together the evidence, concluded that the burglar who broke into the Hi-Lo Oil Co. building 1) tried without success to open up the cash register, the cigarette machine, the soft-drink machine; 2) tried to drive away with a trailer truck which jackknifed; 3) placed two long distance telephone calls and found nobody home; 4) quit in disgust...
...hope, whene'er...
...trips only when it tries to be conventional, i.e., with a love triangle in which Victor Mature, as a claims investigator, and local Insurance Agent Leif Erickson compete for the affections of Stella (Ann Sheridan), the family breadwinner, who is horrified by the schemes hatched by her ne'er-do-well relatives. As the kind of simple-shrewd, irresponsible character he plays best, Wayne is really the star of the movie, and he gets fine support from Frank Fontaine, who plays his dull-witted sidekick, and Evelyn Varden, his conscience-stricken mother...
...would be considered a--er--well, it's difficult to get reconciled to the fact that what one of these girls does with you she is doing with about 25 other guys on different nights...
...Fill 'er up, please, right to the top," caroled a British motorist last week as he braked to a happy stop at a gas pump. Behind him other drivers, grinning as broadly, queued up to wait their turns. Some made a ritual bonfire of their petrol coupons. Some tore them up and scattered them to the winds. For the first time in ten years, eight months and four days, British motorists were able to get all the gasoline they wanted without coupons. "The gratification to the motorists," intoned the great grey Times of London in one of the most...