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...story of a Fascist coup d'état which miscarried because it was met with a counterattack as savage as the charge of the Cadillacs driven by the Barcelona volunteers; of militiamen using as weapons anything that came to hand-old automobiles, old airplanes, revolvers, dynamite, makeshift armored trains. Largely written in Spain between July and November 1936, it was turned out, diary-fashion, while Malraux was leading the Loyalist air force. After flights over Franco's ter ritory, he shut himself up in Madrid's Hotel Florida, wrote in five or six-hour spurts, making...
Service de Luxe (Universal). During the regime of benign, gnome-like little "Uncle Carl" Laemmle, corpses were so prevalent in Universal productions that they became practically the company's trademark, and every sound stage on the lot was a makeshift torture chamber. Under its new board of directors, headed by saturnine Banker J. Cheever Cowdin, Universal has completely reversed its trend. Instead of Boris Karloff, today its top star is Deanna Durbin. Instead of morbid criminology its forte is a peculiarly blithe brand of girlish comedy of which Service de Luxe is the latest sample...
...loaves of bread over the hungry Leftist cities of Madrid and Barcelona. Believing they had pulled off a stunt calculated to persuade Leftists that a Rightist victory would mean a full stomach, Rightist propagandists announced that Madrid's share of the bread, safely floated to the ground in makeshift parachutes, had been 178,000 loaves. Later, ending a week's pause, Rightist batteries west of Madrid resumed their futile shelling of the city, and airmen from Majorca returned to drop live explosives on Barcelona's mangled waterfront...
Such an accident was possible only with Editor Hull's makeshift equipment. Nevertheless, television's green eye, which only last June saw its first suicide, had taken its first notable life...
...people down below." Treacherous, putty-like quicksands and fog, harsh winters and isolation add themselves to the charm of the Abbey's sombre architectural beauties. Finally even Andre's aversion to accepting tips is nibbled away. He still tells himself his job is only a makeshift, but when he is offered a better place, and finds a way to refuse it and throw out his wife at the same time, he jumps at the chance...