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Standing Room Only (Paramount) warms over the hectic humors of war-crowded Washington. Junior Executive Lee Stevens (Fred MacMurray) comes to Washington to wangle, from New Deal Bigwig Glen Ritchie, a contract to convert a languishing toy factory into an ordnance plant. With him comes fleshly, flashy, proletarian Jane Rogers (Paulette Goddard), who has flirted her way out of the firm's toy donkey department into a secretaryship. First night in Washington the roomless pair huddle miserably under the horse-belly of a Civil War monument...
Last Period Hectic...
This matter of orchestration is almost as important as composition; the medley of Ellington favorites was served up in a hectic, pretentious hash in which only "Mood Indigo" appeared in the form we love so well, and the separate original versions of the tunes in the medley remained invariably far superior. In the matter of composition, the contrast was sharp, but I hesitate to pass judgement so readily...
...James Knox Polk, who guided the House in the hectic Jacksonian era, took more abuse and needling than any other Speaker, before or since. Polk put his, and Jackson's, program through Congress and graduated to the Presidency...
Thirty-nine of our editorial people went to college in the Middle West-and this group sometimes made our offices pretty hectic when the football season was in full swing. Six came to us from Wisconsin, four each from Missouri and Nebraska, three each from Northwestern, Chicago, Western Reserve and Michigan. And 13 other Mid-Western colleges and universities have each sent...