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Here comes Hub's pitch...
...patched overalls and jumper," whose "whole attitude [was] one of vague indecision and innate bewilderment." Maw "was heavy and cumbersome with un attended childbearing and her feet were flat and encased in low tennis shoes . . . with the laces carelessly flapping around her bare dirt-stained ankles. . . ." The children were Hub, Virginia ("Virginia ain't what you'd call a godly girl," said Paw), Gwendolin and Eugenia (who had "ferret-like eyes"), Harold and McKinley, Jutland, Buddy (who had a withered leg and a knack for drawing) and Reno (pro nounced Rinno). To Reno, their first born...
...Hub of the Communist universe, Moscow might be expected to have the highest morale. From the smaller cities there was little word, from farming villages (where anti-Stalin feeling is strongest) none. But along the Trans-Siberian Railway travelers saw much the same sights that they had seen in Moscow: swift, purposeful mobilization, ample food. They also saw an average of three trains an hour clanking westward with materials for the front...
This week London marked a record three weeks in which not a bomb had been dropped on the hub of Empire. The whole country had been relatively spared during that time, and, as has always been the case, the respite worried the British more than steady raids...
...rest of the world's picture of a Harvard man, succeeds in making a fantastic plot seem real. A bit bogged down at the start by a desultory script, Harrison in his final scenes, where he outraces a time-bombed munitions train, had even hard-boiled reviewers from the Hub dailies perched on the edge of their seats. Different, well-acted and exciting tonight's "sneak peecture" may well, like its predecssor, become one of the hit movies of the year...