Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inexperienced. In Los Angeles, a young miss, on a vacation from Seaside, Ore., as a reward for not smoking until her 21st birthday, threw a cigaret butt out of a bedroom window, started a brush fire...
...telephone strike. Even that strike seemed to be crumbling around the edges. A.T. & T. claimed it was handling four-fifths of the normal number of local calls, that long-distance service was up to 35%. Telephone workers were beginning to straggle back in many places: twelve in Kosciusko, Miss.; 1,500 Commercial Telephone Workers Union members in New Jersey, pending arbitration and a constitutional test of the state's drastic new anti-strike law (TIME, April 21); so many in the South that Southern Bell had removed emergency restrictions from long-distance calls...
...hints of realistic rustic meanness and kindliness. It also has moments of innocently ribald energy which may not be wholly authentic to the backwoods, but are pretty good as lively, half-demented comedy. Against its bits of honest humor, MacMurray's portrait of a stock Hollywood goof and Miss Colbert's skilled smirking over situations which might better have been played straight look flashily flimsy and false. The picture has a lot of fun in it, but it will be most amusing to those who are content to smirk...
...decayed neighbors, are worked for a good deal of the great deal they are worth. The plot also bears down hard on MacMurray's interest (invented for the screen) in a rich lady farmer (Louise Allbritton) who drives a station wagon. It ends, happily, as soon as Miss Colbert has battled nature just long & hard enough to harvest her first baby...
Special feature of the current Monday night class is the instruction offered by Varsity diving coach Bernie Kelly. Bornie's prize pupil is Miss Patricia Dadmun, Smith graduate who vetoed the 'Cliffe because "if you're interested in athletics, Radcliffe isn't the place for you," and whose father made All-American captaining the Crimson eleven...