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...sofa with burst after burst of laughter . . . would illuminate an evening. Mr. Calhoun, the cast-iron man, who looks as if he had never been born and never could be extinguished, would come in sometimes." She visited Madison at his home, an old man "in his chair, with a pillow behind him; his little person wrapped in a black silk gown; a warm grey and white cap upon his head, which his lady took care should always sit becomingly." Harriet thought he was wonderful, remarked acidly: "It is something that, living under institutions framed by the few for the subordination...
Lana Turner is a superbly tough and toothsome foil for Mr. Gable's masterful routines. She can so tilt her chin that, in any posture, she suggests that she is looking up from a pillow. Clark Gable has had better parts before. But in his closing speech on Bataan, he develops real heat and resonance that suggest a rather moving transition from the celluloid fictions which, for years, he has made likable, into facts which, for the duration, will be his obscure, more serious business...
...Mammy Grayson croons a pair of standout melodies (Goin' To Chicago and Only Worry For a Pillow), and the picture's other Negro artists are first-rate- especially a young Negro boy with a trumpet, knee-deep in Bach at a New Orleans music academy. He loathes the formalized Bach exercises, wants to play his kind of music. After a few bars he does, riding away, loud and low, right out of the academy...
When the Office of Price Administration puts up the ceiling laths and covers them with plaster, something will follow that has never before happened in U.S. history. All upward price movements, retail and wholesale, will halt. Price tags on the nation's shelves, of pillow slips and Paris green, of cosmetics and traveling cranes, will read no higher fort the duration...
...Barracks recently divided into rooms of from one to 14 camp beds, each having five blankets, a pillow and mattress for officers. Heating by modern stoves...