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Great Expectations (British). David Lean's fine, bounteous transcription of the Dickens novel (TIME...
...lean and hungry economy of Britain, coal and steel production was climbing. In the Ruhr, coal production reached a daily rate of 300,000 tons-up 40% since last summer. These were signs of Europe's efforts to help itself-as it should and must under ERP. They were also indications that the U.S. could make progress in its colossal gamble abroad...
...Cookerville. Mister Crump had never even met his candidate. But what difference did that make? Roared Mister Crump: "Everybody says he has a splendid record." Once called to public attention, Judge Mitchell looked like a natural, indeed. He was a mountain man, tall (6 ft. 3 in.), lean and deliberate-something like Cordell Hull, over whose old court he now presided. He had won a D.S.C. in World War I, had served three years as a lieutenant colonel in the Army's legal section in World War II. Most knowing Tennesseans figured that Judge Mitchell, with Mister Crump...
Colorado College, founded by a Union general, last week also reached for a West Pointer instead of a scholar. Its new head: lean, weather-beaten Major General William Hanson Gill, 61, who rebuilt the shattered 32nd Division after the Buna campaign, led it back to Leyte (TIME, Dec. 4,1944), defeated General Yamashita...
...mountaineers modestly call their schedule "one of the roughest in the united States." Frankly looking to the north for material, Colorado has a team roster of 17 that lists 12 Canadians, but their 1945-46 team won-and-lost record (against teams largely from Canada) shows a lean three victories, all against the same team, as opposed to eight losses...