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While this problem is being resolved there is a good deal of brawling, shooting out of candles, slapping up of Miss Darcel, and smiling by Lancaster--all designed to keep the viewer happy. Since the moral and psychological implications of the picture are almost nil, there are very few of those annoying expository speeches. When they occur they are usually couched in reference to a paragon of ruthlessness named Acc Hanna, whom Lancaster shot to death long before the start of the movie in return for various favors...
However wrong, or right, these men may be, the present effect of the court ruling in the Deep South is nil-save for the mental gymnastic it has caused politicians charged by their white fellow Southerners with preventing racial mingling. Negro children are still attending their same old schools; too aften housed in shamefully shabby buildings. The Southern white school kids, and most college students, are back in their all-white institutions again this fall. The same studied ignorance of the historic decision is being practiced on almost every level of racial contact. There are, of course, exceptions, but these...
Jordan has brought this team along slowly--too slowly, some have said. But early in the season it became obvious that he was shooting for the Big Three title, and his chances for it, seemingly nil in October, have grown to the stage where he is theoretically only five points away from it, according to the early bookie line...
...class we have those teams whose academic requirements are high. In the other football 'class' we have teams from schools in which the academic requirements are practically nil," Little told the New York Football Writers Association...
...Vogue bravely, had been "especially ingenious . . . With metal and leather taken by the Army, she fastened her coats with dog leashes." In bombed-out London, British Vogue continued to publish, carried ads for "especially designed protection costumes ... of pure oiled silk . . . available in dawn, apricot, rose, amethyst, Eau de Nil green and pastel pink. The wearer can cover a distance of 200 yards through mustard gas." It also advised readers that "white acces sories are very chic in wartime. They show up well in blackouts...