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...single." Her bustling mother said: "We would rather be honest about it." Heanor's town council opened a subscription for the babies, itself led the donations with ?25. To Norah at that moment, life had never seemed so exciting. Even the local cinema sent a gift: "Flicker tickets for life...
...Flicker. In the streets of Uniontown, Pa., where he was born 63 years ago, George Marshall was known as "Flicker." (Ever since, his natural dignity has repelled nicknames - while the first-naming President calls Admiral King "Ernie," he always calls Marshall "General.") When Flicker set his mind on a soldier's career, none of the Republican Congressmen was willing to recommend the son of a stout Democrat for West Point. So George left for Virginia Military Institute. At the end of his plebe year, he ranked 35th; (when he was appointed Chief of Staff in 1939, he was 30th...
...Solomons, where he commanded a now famed battalion of raiders, 46-year-old Colonel Edson directed his troops with never a flicker of his eyelashes, never a rise in his impersonal voice. Men under fire were braced by his characteristic battle pose: arms folded easily over his lower chest, feet wide apart, eyes darting from under his steel helmet...
Watch Dog in a Fix. Last week's exchanges on dogs and false teeth were merely the first public flicker of an intergovernmental fire that has smoldered underground for months. The Army-speaking for all Administration contracting agencies-has fought to establish its absolute right to terminate war contracts once & for all on its own terms, precisely because it fears that GAO's meticulous audits would "go on ad infinitum." Already in this war $5.9 billion in contracts have been cancelled, as military needs changed. Come peace, some $75 billion, 100,000 prime contractors and more than...
...picture is a symphony of heaving, buckling studio sets, dubious ship-model photography and explosions on the sound track. Like many current war films, it suggests oldtime flicker serials, is directly in line of descent from The Perils of Pauline. For making it, Warner Bros, is being allowed to fly a special Maritime Service Victory Flag...