Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flaw. In Dallas, Interior Decorator H. P. Jordan flunked his Naval Reserve physical examination: he was colorblind...
...film's producers were apparently aware that audiences are as sick of the tale of intrigue in a Balkan bungalow as they are of Jeannette McDonald. So they got smart and rigged up a whole new story. There was only one flaw in the plan: the new story was just as bad as the old one. They also thought they'd provide an antidote to the somewhat ghastly charms of Miss McDonald. So they raided--and that word is more descriptive than you think--the Metropolitan Opera and came up with Rise Stevens. This little scheme fell through...
...found with the picture, it is its continual telegraphing of punches. You're pretty sure of what's going to happen before it ever happens. In most movies, this would prove a fatal error. In "All That Money Can Buy" it's simply a minor flaw in an otherwise irreproachable and praiseworthy film. Hollywood can still make good pictures. And ones like this almost make up for most of the bad ones...
...large the issue is full and well-rounded. If it has a flaw, it is the paucity of student articles on current affairs, for there is really but one in this issue, and additional interest might be gained by the substitution of a few articles on the order of the Guardian's for the magazine's stories and poems. These purely literary efforts seem beyond Threshold's scope, and they are not of a calibre to constitute significant contributions. But, in any case, Threshold remains readable and uncommonly constructive. Certainly it is a major contribution to student literary and political...
...Only flaw in the ointment: the Germans may have faked and planted it for the British to find...