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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Should TIME continue to fly its Air Express Edition all over Latin America each week...
...north, in a long thin funnel, white to greasy green in color, the storm poured through, with thunderous roar and a long trail of smoke like an express train. It hit Joetown, then Oakdale, then swept Pleasant Hill. Fifteen of the 25 houses toppled as if they had been stepped on. Stoves, mattresses and tables poured down onto Route 19. Porches and roofs, caught in the swirl, splashed in the debris of Pleasant Hill, and then the tornado ground on through West Virginia...
...framed a Moslem friend (Monte Blue) into dying for the crime. In Sofia he tried to assassinate a Prime Minister. There he befriended an uxorious little clerk (Steven Geray) in the Maritime Ministry, got him heavily in debt in a gambling house set up by spies for that express purpose, extorted from him the plans of Yugoslavia's mine fields in the Adriatic. Then he left his victim to suicide and, having collected his fee, double-crossed his employers...
Bringing to a close its thirty-fifth season, the HDC has just completed something of a record in that it was one of the first collegiate dramatic groups founded for the express purpose of presenting undergraduate written plays. When the stock of these ran out, it turned to Europe and Asia, bringing to the American stage for the first time many plays which would never have reached it through professional channels. Some of these have gone on to Broadway, as have numerous HDC members. This season saw Paul Robeson made a member of the honorary advisory committee...
...Lifeboat," coming to the University Theatre this weekend, can easily be recommended as one of the finest war films yet produced by Hollywood. Alfred Hitchcock, a man who has been connected with grade A pictures, seemingly which all begin on a fast-moving European express train, has come forth with another hit, but it is an innovation. All the action, and it is a long film, takes place on a lifeboat adrift in the middle Atlantic. No express train...