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Every thinking person knows Uncle Sam's air power is two-fisted. The right fist is the U.S.A.F.-smashing, powerful and capable; the left fist is U.S. naval and Marine aviation-rapier-like, highly mobile and superb. The bloodstream for these fighting fists is Uncle Sam's civilian aeronautical industry...
...Langdale, the Hound Trailing Association, which supervises austerity's fox hunt, had 36 hounds straining at the leash for one of the H.T.A.'s spring trails. Behind the hounds, and mingling with the spectators, a score of bookies (legal in England) were grabbing up money hand over fist as they sang out the fast-changing odds. Suddenly, clambering over the rocky ground, a man appeared, dragging a foul-smelling concoction known as chemerly (rags soaked in a blend of aniseed, turpentine and urine). He was the trail-layer, the man who sets the grueling ten-mile course over...
...stories with inexpensive actors; Herman Cohen, who frankly makes cheapies for the No. 2 spot on double bills; Albert Zugsmith, who arrived in Hollywood two years ago to make TV films, now has four cheapies ready for theater release; William F. Broidy, who put out such pictures as Steel Fist and Sea Tiger for less than $100,000 apiece; Writer Arch Oboler, who has just finished The Twonky, a fantasy about a berserk television machine...
...Actors-"A ham is, simply, any actor who has not been successful in repressing his natural instincts." ¶ Critics and criticism-"Impersonal criticism . . . is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful." "Show me a critic without prejudices, and I'll show you an arrested cretin...
Witch & Minster. At the core of the book is a miracle. While digging the foundation for a new Franciscan cloister, young Edwin Widowson unearths a queer, antique fist of pure gold. The friars set a guard to it, but the next night Edwin, persuaded by outlaws, filches the treasure and leaves in its place the hand of his brother, who has been hanged. "Miracle!" cry the good friars in the morning...