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...Ever since the end of World War II the situation on the Franco-Swiss border has been touchy. Last week it was downright itchy. Over the long-distance telephone from the Swiss frontier station of Le Locle came the stationmaster's voice, cold and hollow. "French fleas," it said, "are infiltrating our border in the clothing of French railroad workers. It is a veritable invasion...
...small "art" theater specializing in upperbrow films for upperbrow audiences. The word was originally used to suggest that every seat is sure to be filled. A skeptical Hollywood crack favors another interpretation: whenever you go, you are sure to get a seat. Last week the Hollywood joke rang hollow; having grown in a year from 226 to 270, U.S. sureseaters were booming. Symptoms...
After Basil Rathbone's neatly trimmed and waxed voice, Bing Crosby's narration of Washington Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a letdown. The suspicion that Bing isn't taking the tale seriously is disquieting. The doings of schoolmaster Ichabod Crane are tailored to fit Crosby rather than Irving; that is probably why much of the charm of the first episode is missing in this one. There is enough left over to make good entertainment, though...
Like the unhappy inhabitants of Bird in Hand, Pa., and Kissimmee, Fla., the citizens of Mahwah, N.J. were getting sick & tired of the indignities directed their way. The name was not quite as bad as Dogpatch or Skunk Hollow, but it was not even granted the same recognition. When Mahwah appeared on envelopes, mail sorters sighed patiently, made a correction and directed the letter to Rahway or Mohawk. Last week the aroused businessmen of Mahwah took a quarter-page advertisement in the New York Times to set people straight about their town...
...Just enjoy the whole thing," said the man. "Now let's have some major action here, some minor action there . . . That's quite good . . . Go on now, really moving . . . Go right on . . . Yes, yes . . . let the action transfer to the whole body . . . Relax the shoulders . . . Hollow the chest . . . That's wonderful, wonderful! . . ." The voice became slightly breathless with excitement : "Now just gently . . . close your mouth please . . . Go on now, really moving . . . Yes, yes, YES! . . . That's so beautiful...