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Blitzkrieg im Westen, which was offered by the Harvard Liberal Union to a jam-packed New Lecture Hall last night, is significant for the cleverly unpolished effect which camouflages its propaganda. It contains none of the gilt-edged-super-collossal-stupendous-gargantuan approach that Hollywood has geared the American public (and even the Harvard student) to lap up. It would have been much more comforting to the wide-eyed undergraduate if this film had been a faked plug for the Hitler machine. We could have laughed at the gum-drop exploits of some Nazi Robert Taylor. But the swift, systematic...
...twelve-ton street-roller around the curve, headed down toward the busy intersection. As usual, he shoved the gearshift into reverse. But the gears failed to mesh. He set the brakes, but already the twelve tons of steel were rolling, gathering speed down the steep grade toward the jam of cars, busses, children...
...finally gets "hep" that the wolf isn't grandma; the next night Goldilocks makes a "three-bowl parlay" on the bears' porridge. Every few months he asks over his old musician friends-Manny Klein, Lennie Hayton, Joe Venuti, and whoever happens to be in town-for a jam session in his large rumpus room. Summers he packs the family off to the ranch near...
Three years ago at a conference in Havana, radio experts from Canada, Mexico, Cuba and the U. S. sat down to unsnarl the tangled North American air waves. At the time, all kinds of signals were jumping over borders to jam up any programs that got into their path...
...necessity for such a test was very aptly illustrated in the late war, when the original Canadian contingent arrived in France armed with the Ross rifle, a weapon which had shown its superior qualities in target shooting ... in peace. In the mud of the trenches it was found to jam after a very few rounds; and after a short experience of the weapon under active service conditions the Canadian soldier refused to have anything to do with it and insisted on being armed with [another] rifle...