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Shine On, Harvest Moon (Warners) turns the careers of vigorous Songstress Nora Bayes (Ann Sheridan) and her songwriting husband Jack Norworth (Dennis Morgan) into a fictional clothesline on which to hang the hit tunes of the sporty, cheroot-fumed decades before World War I. Norworth's resurrected song hits are given too little of the original cornstarch, too much contemporary orchestral bluing, but the pretty, evocative title song and the swinging, swooping Take Me Out to the Ball Game may be around for quite a while. (Of four new songs, the likeliest is Time Waits...
...security taxes as general revenue. Bringing up his point against the timber tax, Mr. Roosevelt reminded the leaders that he is a treegrower himself. Politely but firmly, Barkley declared that the President's annual crop of quick-growing Christmas "bushes" cannot be compared with the once-a-generation harvest of slow-growing commercial timber...
...Patrol Craft Escort: 180-foot convoy guardian, tonnage secret, cost about $1 million. PCEs bear such names as Hell Harvest, Hell for Hirohito...
...Ernest Hemingway -"I have none of his love for bullfighting, and yet there is no American author I would rather meet." 2) Novelist John Steinbeck-"some of the stories in ... The Long Valley . . . equal or surpass the best tales of Chekhov." 3) Crimester Dashiell Hammett-"I regard his Red Harvest as a remarkable achievement, the last word in atrocity, cynicism and horror." 4) Novelist William Faulkner - "perhaps the most important" U.S. writer, "essentially, powerfully and in the full sense of the word, a Protestant...
...spring of 1942, the War Department hurriedly bought 21,000 acres of rich farmland at Rosemount, Minn. Farmers were hustled off ("Don't you know there's a war on?") before they could harvest crops already planted. In came the Du Pont Co. with a big job: to build and operate the DPC's $69,000,000 Gopher Ordnance Works...