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...lightest and brightest moments You Came Along follows with gusto the happy shenanigans of three heroic and irresponsible Army pilots (Robert Cummings, Don DeFore, Charles Drake) assigned to tour the U.S. on a bond-selling mission. They are under the supervision of Treasury Agent I. V. Hotchkiss. When I. V. turns out to be Ivy, a svelte, dazzling gilthead (Lizabeth Scott), all the necessary ingredients are in the shaker. If only the bitters had been left out, the result would be a refreshing hot-weather mixture of laughter and lighthearted love...
Aside from general improvements such as-better and nearer living quarters, modernized cafeterias, and factory play-grounds, Bogner's plans include a novel system of coloring. Ceilings would be the lightest part of the plant, to give maximum effectiveness to the long fluorescent lamps running the length of the building, while walls, though also light, would be slightly darker than the ceiling. Machinery, formerly only gray, would be painted with a newly developed warm color except for danger spots, which would be a flaring scarlet...
...Existence of Evil. Thurber is as sensitively aware of the existence of evil -i.e., of stupidity and cowardice and self-love-as any American writer of his time. The knowledge pervades his lightest work; and in one small corner of his world, in such stories as The Cane in the Corridor and The Breaking Up of the Winship, evil unmasks itself in grim tragedy...
Rogers. "We have 430 acres. . . . Our only boy 23 years of age, has done practically all the work, as I am 70 years of age and physically unable . . . to do anything except the lightest work. If this boy is taken, our farm would lie idle...
Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the fire-insurance business is subject to federal regulation, the industry has been under sentence-of what, it was not exactly sure. Last week, the Senate clarified the sentence. It passed a bill which would provide the lightest of federal control over the $6 billion business...