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...Town. Season's gayest, liveliest musical, about three sailors in Manhattan and their island fling (TIME...
...poor stock that did not have its fling. Nor was there any sheep-&-goat distinction between war & peace stocks. War-plane-building Douglas Aircraft Co. climbed four points in a few hours to a new high. Right along with it were Chrysler Corp. and General Motors Corp., who hope to make plenty of money in peacetime markets...
...Affairs of Susan (Paramount) is Joan Fontaine's first fling at comic prettiness and vivacity in modern dress. Though it seems much longer, it lasts only an hour and 50 minutes...
...country with "Oklahoma." After several seasons when nearly every major offering has glorified the American ideal, it is more escapist and quite refreshing to look at a handsome musical of the best pre-war vintage set far from the North American continent. "Much Ado About Love" takes a fling in Renaissance Italy with a sparkling score, and the very English Melville Cooper to give an Ernest Truex air of sophistication...
...world's greatest swim sprinter is knock-kneed, rusty-haired Alan Robert Ford. During the past month, his last at Yale, he has taken a final fling at rewriting the record books. Result: eleven new American free-style and backstroke marks. Last week, in the midst of his final Navy (V12) exams, he made the biggest splash of all. Keeping his stroke long and easy (extra effort generates power but not speed, like an automobile in second), Ford couldn't help feeling that he was loafing. Three official A.A.U. watches contradicted him : he had traveled 100 yards...