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...This moth-eaten plot, nimbly performed, takes on a restful, unpretentious air. Most rewarding performance is Menjou's as the crusty, fussy bachelor, who finally works as hard bailing his "daughters" out of jams as any real, doting father would. Most unusual performance: the boy friend of one of the salesladies, played-mostly at the piano, fortunately-by Eugene List, the G.I. pianist who entertained Truman, Churchill, Stalin and other notables at the Potsdam Conference...
...Star-Times reporter, bent on spoiling the Post-Dispatch's exclusive story, went on a private safari which bagged the lions while Wright and his party were eating lunch. Three months later, Wright tried again. This time he bought a couple of "old, vicious" lions. They were so moth-eaten they refused to leave the camp site when let out of their cages...
...roommate to send it home for him. Vag kicked the valise over to the door and looked around the room. He would have liked to take those liquor bottles on the mantle. They really weren't empty. He looked at the banners on the wall. Kind of moth-eaten, but still good to see. What the hell, he thought, opening the door. He'd done this before. Going out the door was like walking into a blast of air that might have been the "cold, cruel world" they talked about, only it was August and hot and humid...
...moth-eaten fringe of Chicago's Loop, TIME Correspondent James Bell encountered a wayfarer...
Hawaii's Territorial Board of Agriculture and Forestry, troubled by two new pests, hoped that the old method would work again. The pests: 1) the anacamptodes moth, a bright little creature whose larvae have riddled the islands' main forage crops; 2) the pineapple mealy bug, a small, white, wingless sapsucker that might wilt every pineapple plant in Hawaii if costly spraying were halted...