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Casablanca (Warner). Before the U.S. seizure of Morocco handed Warner Bros. some of the most dazzling promotion in years, Casablanca was just an exotic location for a topical melodrama. The city was known to European refugees as a desperate whistle stop on the underground railway to Lisbon. This picture is...
The situation was doubly shameful because no one could treat the food problem as a disastrous Act of God. The harvest year 1942 was the most bounteous since the Pilgrims came to Plymouth Rock. The Japs and Nazis had cut the U.S. off from only a few more or less...
Fauna & Flora. The most exotic feature of the islands is the bird life. Americans get a laugh out of the gony bird for a while. Then he is a plain nuisance. Frigate birds are scoundrels who make a living by snatching food out of other birds' beaks. The sooty...
"Yesterday afternoon there presented himself at the window ... a young man of exotic allure, his hair in a turban, his hands in bright lemon-yellow gloves, and speaking with a frightful English jargon. . . . " After some exchange of currency, the Hindu "left the bank with measured step. It was only in...
The blow was struck up from Down Under at the exotic Melanesian land of the Solomon Islands, a fringe of volcanic peaks strung for 600 miles across the northern end of the Coral Sea, 900 miles from Australia's coast (see map). It was no mere raid. It was...