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...Goddard and Hugh Williams. With this hoary pressagent's trick, Sir Alexander Korda helped beat the drums for his return to moviemaking-and the showing this week of the first movie in three years bearing his name. Tall, silver-haired, and at 54 none the worse for 29 hectic years in the international movie business, Korda was making a comeback from his second eclipse as a major cinemaker...
Every bit as staunch as the arrangements, the Band's bass drum survived a falling Yale man last November and the men, a hectic trip to Dartmouth and a serenade off the Capitol steps at Concord. Plans are afoot for a similar stunt at Richmond next week. This afternoon, the Band is armed with a new B.U. medley and a top-secret labyrinthian war dance, designed to completely out-maneuver the visitor's attempt. Whether or not the B.U. outfit is as big-time as its partisans would make out, time will tell. Meanwhile, the Band awaits the encounter, possibly...
...clean-especially near the center. Dirt increases in direct proportion to distance from the Kremlin. Not even last week's ceremonial ablutions could douse Moscow's habitual smell-a musty and ageless compound of wet plaster, cabbage and inadequately dressed furs. Not even last week's hectic carnival rumpus could exaggerate the Muscovites' devotion to their white-walled, golden-headed city...
...Kindergarten and first-grade enrollments were bulging with the first war babies to reach school age. Babies who passed their infancy in these hectic times, warned an Ohio psychologist, are apt to be jittery about such a violent novelty as school. Dr. Clare W. Graves of Western Reserve University advised parents to watch for such signs of nervous tension as mouth-tugging and hair-pulling. After a couple of weeks in school, kindergartners are apt to go on talking jags; the only thing for parents to do then, said Dr. Graves, is to grit their teeth and listen sympathetically...
...first mention of "Courthouse" Lee's name, thousands of ex-G.I.s pricked up their ears, and their memories. They remembered Courthouse Lee all right, for his private train and his big, black limousine with the red leather cushions, and for all the hectic saluting that went on wherever starchy old Courthouse strode or rode. General Lee, supply chief to easygoing Ike Eisenhower, loved parades and smaller pomp, and he insisted that his quartermasters, bakers and truck drivers be snappier, and handier with that salute, than any combat infantryman...