Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dean Morse has an injured neck; Trajillo-Bravo is on crutches with a badly sprained ankle; Bob Axtell smashed his nose; and two others have minor injuries. At present Link Clark, Bill Murphy, and Elmer Taylor are the mainstays of the skeleton team...
...Minor Problems. Last week's Greek squeeze was in the best tradition of courtship, firm but unhurried. The Axis even denied for the benefit of jittery Greeks that it had made demands. First there were the two minor problems of Bulgaria and Yugoslavia to be dealt with. Bulgaria's Coburg King Boris was primarily pro-neutrality and then, oddly enough, pro-British, but most Bulgarians were ready to shout for the side that could produce the Dobruja and promise Thrace...
Premier Pétain announced laws against French Jews. The laws defined a Jew as a man with three Jewish grandparents or two Jewish grandparents and a Jewish wife. They barred most such men from all but minor public jobs, requiring incumbent Jewish officeholders to resign within two months; from positions in the Army, Navy, Air Force; from jobs as teachers; from positions in press, radio, cinema. Vichy was very proud that these decrees were milder than Germany's-that Jews may retain civil rights as citizens. Some professions were not purged...
Dudley Digges gives a superb portrait of a stuffy uncle, and there are effective minor players, especially Bobby Readick as a malevolent small boy who is referred to by Mr. Truex as "Huckleberry Capone." But despite the excellent cast, the playwrights' wit fails to explode, merely intermittently sputters. Even Shakespeare came his croppers; presumably Kaufman & Hart are entitled to theirs...
...That all studios, including minor ones which now locate their own extras, be required to use Central...