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...Behrman from a Somerset Maugham short story) is urbane but upsy-downsy drawing-room comedy. Its three acts of intended laughter rather suggest three sets of tennis, with Jane narrowly losing the match, 6-2, 1-6, 4-6. Jane (Edna Best) is a rich, frumpish, middle-aged Liverpool widow, hard of head and blunt of speech. In a jolly first act she descends on her London relatives to announce that she is marrying a penniless architect half her age. There is consternation, opposition, and the sense of a cheerful future for the play, if perhaps a checkered...
...wide tunnel will have four lanes and a 15-ft. ceiling, two feet higher than in New York's new Brooklyn-Battery tunnel. It will be more than -three times as long as the present longest highway tunnel, the 2.16-mile tube under the Mersey at Liverpool, England. A 9-ft. duct under the roadway will bring in fresh air, and a duct in the ceiling, with blowers, will take off carbon monoxide...
This hour-long escape sequence achieves a rising level of suspense as Howard uses his espionage training in car stealing, judo, passport forging, and disguise to foil both the police and his fellow agents. In the Liverpool warehouse climax villainy gets its gory reward, and "Clouded Yellow" establishes itself as unusually good entertainment...
Most Western European countries, and Yugoslavia, will contribute. Britain has offered the use of her new Liverpool synchrocyclotron. Denmark will open the facilities of Copenhagen University. The U.S. has also offered its support. "But no one," said a UNESCO scientist, "considered it worthwhile to make inquiries in the Soviet Union...
...London tabloid splashed a picture of the "passport" across half a page, hundreds of people asked for passports and announced their readiness to trade this world for another. Plaintively the society announced that it was all a fake-they were not prepared to sell any round-trip tickets from Liverpool Airport to Mars. They had never even bought any shares in "British Milky Way Space Ships, Inc." Then the scientists went back to what they know how to handle: their telescopes, their rocket motors, and the antiseptic world of interstellar mathematics...