Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less to bequeath, but as his doomsday drew near, Adolf Hitler dictated a last will and political testament. The document, discovered by U.S. Army Intelligence in the suitcase of a minor Nazi bureaucrat, was made public last week...
...galloping excitement of the real thing. The kiddies won't find it as much fun as their elders will. The picture's chief excitement is Yvonne (Salome, Where She Danced) de Carlo, a vigorous, shapely actress who looks equally luscious in sequins or a fringed doeskin skirt. Minor causes of excitement: horse-chases, barroom brawls, shootings, knife-throwing and a baby teetering over a precipice at the end of a fallen tree. Frontier Gal oversteps the bounds of conventional horse-opera morality by including a kissing marathon and several rough-&-tumble bedroom scenes...
...Minor sports have also undergone changes, the H.A.A. reported. Rhode Island State will participate in a mile relay here, and a Yale squash match has been slated for the second week in March. The swimming meet here with the Blue has been advanced to January...
...Seventh Veil is handsomely photographed, elegantly produced and acted with full romantic flourishes. It is a typical exhibit in Britain's current campaign to beat Hollywood at its own game (see above). The music includes the Grieg Concerto in A Minor, the Mozart Sonata in C Major and something called the Seventh Veil Waltz. Ghost Pianist Eileen Joyce and the London Symphony Orchestra perform superbly. But British moviemakers have learned more than expert photography from Hollywood: cinemaddicts will not be very much surprised to see at the end that Francesca's heart has really been yearning for True...
This turnabout at Chicago's off-season powwow followed hard upon the minor leagues' meeting at Columbus, Ohio where Happy had been kicked around. The minors voted to strip him of his veto power over their legislation, action that would have left him crippled. The majors voted down this proposal, also scrapped a project of the minors to cut from the Commissioner's job control of the recently established $50,000 baseball promotional fund. The result: Happy was happy again. Said he: "I'm . . . not bloodied...