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...courtroom orations and ectoplasmic figures in the stadium, he fumbled badly in showing Rockne the man. This latter part of the picture is endurable solely because it is thoroughly punctuated with some of the best football shots on celluloid, including three defeats of Army, which may be a happy omen...
...press conference in a mood of great good humor. Correspondents in the front row saw all the sure signs that the President was waiting to spring something -he pursed his lips, stretched his big cheeks and rolled his tongue against them as he stared at the ceiling-an omen from which Washington newsmen deduce the Presidential mood as fishermen scan the sky for breaks in the weather. A blurt by Secretary Steve Early helped start the conference-as they seldom start these days-with a laugh. The President announced that at 2:45 the next day he would dedicate three...
Gibraltar's security now depends primarily on Spain's friendship, and Spain's occupation of Tangier last fortnight was no friendly omen. The pounding which Franco's guns could give warships inside Gibraltar's moles and booms would certainly be disastrous and perhaps, over a period of weeks, big shells could smash away the Rock's friable limestone-of which every splinter becomes a missile when a shell explodes-to expose the defenders' guns to ultimate destruction. If that should happen, Benito Mussolini would escape his Mediterranean cage...
...first king since 1890, if he has a kingdom to return to. Alexander Loudon, Netherlands Minister to the U.S., when asked if the blessed event was in prospect, hedged: "A royal child born on the soil of freedom-loving America would be both a blessing and a good omen...
...announcement to 134-1/32. New York Ship (TIME, May 20) is a leading beneficiary of Franklin Roosevelt's five-year-old naval and merchant marine construction boom. To holders of other capital-goods securities, landlocked by heavy arrearages, New York Ship's performance was a pleasant omen of what they may expect when National Defense moves inland...