Word: matter-of-fact
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...desert island, chose blonde, ladylike Madeleine Carroll. Safari promises to reduce this dream to reality when, as Linda Stewart, Cinemactress Carroll is taken by her wealthy admirer Baron de Courland (Tullio Carminati) on a jungle expedition led by dashing Jim Logan (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.). When the matter-of-fact Baron spends most of his time bagging specimens, Linda undertakes to jog him into jealousy and a proposal by flirting with Jim. The moment seems to have arrived when Linda and Jim, caught away from camp by a rainstorm, have to hole up in a tree for the night. No Columbia...
...highly trained, matter-of-fact Pan American Airways crews, flights from such far-flung bases as Hong Kong, Lisbon and Barranquilla have become routine-no more glamorous than domestic airline operation from St. Louis or Camden...
...Port Huron, Mich. Sufficient time having elapsed since young Mickey Rooney steamed away to glory, leaving behind young Edison's harrowing boyhood, the public mind passes painlessly to Installment No. 2, solid, literal and prosaic, with big budget written over every sequence. It also has sterling, matter-of-fact Spencer Tracy making a brave, respectful effort at verisimilitude by looking a little wild at moments of inspiration, looking a little deaf at other times, characteristically keeping his hands in his pockets...
DIRECTIONS IN MODERN POETRY-Elizabeth Drew & John L. Sweeney-Norton ($2.75). The most matter-of-fact book about modern poetry yet published. Examples of the work of 40-odd practitioners, from Pound to Dylan Thomas, are closely discussed, with an eye to showing just where in the modern world the modern poets stand...
...death-dealing explosive which would annihilate whole regiments, spoil everyone's stomach for further fighting. Last week little, stocky, 53-year-old Mr. Barlow traveled from his office in Baltimore, Md. to Washington, and bounded into a meeting of the Senate Military Affairs Committee. In a scarily matter-of-fact voice he revealed a formula for an explosive so horrific that the alarmed Senators, before they adjourned, burned the minutes of the meeting in a metal wastebasket...