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Though Government mimeographs orbited overtime on the Vanguard project, and an uncommon flow of information on firing times and other matters was directed to newsmen, the press itself played no small part in building up for the letdown. Few of the 127 U.S. and foreign reporters who covered the launching gave any strong warning to editors and readers-as briefing officers warned them-that they were there for a test shoot, and that one of three missile tests turns out to be a flop-nik. With perhaps half a dozen exceptions, the press corps at Cape Canaveral had no grounding...
After such a climax, a letdown seems inevitable; but Scriptwriter Boulle has capped his climax with a splendid stroke of irony. Having risked his life for the principle that captured officers shall not do manual work, the colonel now decides that they shall. They shall do it, he announces, to the horror of his subordinates, because the British prisoners are not going to sabotage the bridge; they are going to build it; and in building it, they will not only "teach these Japanese a lesson," they will build the health and the morale of the entire battalion...
...them more by classifying the beds as furniture instead of structural built-ins, cutting them out of mortgage packages. Progress and Government rules folded Murphy bed sales. To recoup, Murphy concentrated on selling "efficiency" kitchens for small apartments. Last year his Murphy Door Bed Co. sold only 10,000 letdown beds, making most of its $1,000,000 sales from kitchen units. Last week, as the company planned a comeback in house-trailer Murphy beds, Inventor Murphy died at 81 in Belle Vista Beach...
...count's surrogate offers what love he can; from each he gleans a peculiar sense of life's purpose. When the real count gets wind of an inheritance windfall and returns to claim it, the stage is set for a showdown that is also something of a letdown. Author Du Maurier stuffs her novel with eccentric servants, eavesdroppers, potential murders, apparent suicides, strangely worded wills. For a romantic setting there is the 17th century chateau of St. Gilles, not unlike Daphne Du Maurier's own sprawling, 70-room Menabilly House on the Cornish coast, great and gloomy...
Tonight Wilson will again use his new devices, as the varsity travels to Williams to play a mediocre Williams team. Even the usually cautious Wilson predicted victory "if there is no letdown...