Word: mishap
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...flashback-crime affairs, ably narrated by that ace yarn spicler, Frank Craven. It's not too tough to pick the murderer and everybody has a whale of a time making him confess. Craven's presence assures at least one good acting performance, and his supporting cast flounders along without mishap...
Before Pearl Harbor Jack Singer was a New York Journal-American sportswriter with a talent for making friends and turning out sharp copy. When war came, the slim, good-looking youngster (27) said his job was unimportant, asked for foreign service. Last April he got it. Word of his mishap moved Navy Secretary Knox to say: "I think we all feel a great sense of pride at the long chance men are taking to get the news...
...Clarence Wormuth started a double-purposed safety campaign. When a worker is involved in a traffic mishap, the plant safety supervisor checks his plant record, if it is bad calls him in for an interview. After his aptitudes and temperament are determined, he is put in a job that better suits him. "Accident-prone" workers are segregated, placed on nonhazardous work...
...President's young cousin, Alexander Grant Jr., kayak champion of the East coast, is shooting the Colorado rapids from Lee's Ferry. He hopes to complete the two-week adventure in Lake Meade Aug. 1. Only mishap the first week was being once tossed ashore...
Many big manufacturers, enjoying their first real business in ten years, are reluctant to share it. Furthermore, Navy and Army contracts hold the prime contractor responsible for quality and delivery dates, and in some cases prohibit subcontracting. In case of a mishap in subcontracting, DCS can take no responsibility. Moreover, many potential subcontractors are as fiercely independent as they are small, hate to take orders secondhand...