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...Public Enemy No. i whose misbehavior seems so innocuous, beside the work of later international candidates, that you can almost smell the sachet along with the tear gas and gunpowder. The picture recalls how this born delinquent knocked over a string of banks, a mail train, a harmless elderly couple and two of his associates; and how at last his girl betrayed him to G-men, who shot him down as he walked out of a nickelodeon. Fortunately, this old-fashioned story is told in an old-fashioned way. The result: a tough, tight, tense, tricky little melodrama...
...tell the doctor too much!" Recipes for twelve diseases follow. Samples: ¶ "Artificial skin inflammation, . . . Take three times daily . . . one teaspoonful of a 10% solution of iodine potassium in a glass of water . . . until a scarlet-like affection of the skin results. . . . Iodine potassium is a completely harmless medicine...
...Harry's Arcade Spa, whose floors have felt the tread of Roosevelts and Rockefellers, pinball was termed "good clean fun," "necessary for morale," "harmless amusement."' "If the game is banned," said one habitue, "you will get a vicious ring of backroom machines and gambling. The ban will probably boomerang." Regardless of the outcome of the ban, Arcade Spa, which thrives on pinball revenue, will be hard...
...dose (one pound of the chemical to 75 gallons of water), when sprayed on the leaves, kills the toughest U.S. weed-the perennial wild morning glory (also called bindweed). It is also deadly to poison ivy, poison oak, sumac, horse nettle, chickweed, thistles, plaintain, dandelions, ragweed. But it is harmless to animals, is not inflammable, does not corrode sprayers or reduce the fertility of the soil...
Hope for the Best (by William Mc-Cleery; produced by Jean Dalrymple & Marc Connelly) casts Franchot Tone -absent from Broadway since 1940 - as a famous columnist. He has 11,000,000 readers lapping up his harmless froth, but what he yearns after is to feed them politics and liberalize their thinking. Scared out of trying by his highbrow, reactionary fiancée, he finally borrows enough gumption from a sympathetic young girl (Jane Wyatt)- incidentally swapping fiancées while crossing his Rubicon...