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...North Koreans who were described by General Walton Walker last week as making the "last gasp," still had some wind left. Despite the fact that they showed marked signs of hurt from incessant U.S. air attacks, the North Koreans last week managed to mount a heavy general attack all along the U.S. beachhead in Korea. It was an impressive and dangerous enemy effort, the fourth major Red try in one month to achieve a breakthrough (see below...
...seven miles. This week the Reds had fought to within 2^ miles of Pohang, and although the enemy pressure there was stronger than anywhere else on the front, no great alarm was registered. Said General Walker: "It is my belief that the over-extended enemy is making his last gasp...
Grand Canyon), rises in the mountains of Wyoming. It floods in summer, when the high snows melt, and when the desert lands gasp for moisture. In July a spectacular sheet of white water, a quarter of a mile wide, 17 feet thick and twice as high as Niagara, spills over the top of Grand Coulee Dam. In time, this overflow will be channeled off to irrigate half a million acres of desert without sacrificing one kilowatt of electrical output. Only then will the New Deal's resettlement dream come true, in the blossoming in the sagebrush...
...imaginative and lacks deep conviction. But her technique and voice are still basically excellent. Joseph Wiseman, as the court Peeping Tom who spreads scandal, talks inexorably and monotonously--like a passing freight train. At times he varies his performance with a pseudo-emotional crescendo, usually preceded by a strained gasp. Henry Daniell, as the king, is the most polished of the performers; he has an impressive bearing and a versatile voice. But the virtues of the acting do not compensate for the essential sterility of the play...
...part of Mrs. Keith, Claudette Colbert is at last emancipated from the kind of role where she has to choose between George Brent and a career. She gets the chance to have a miscarriage, sweat out intermittent attacks of malaria, crawl on her back under a barbed-wire fence, gasp and stagger through the jungle, fight off a would-be assaulter, get beaten, slapped, and spit upon. Miss Colbert does all these things convincingly and manages as well to brig charm and warmth to the scenes with her husband and little...