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...tone. As Josephine, Lois Smith has the right looks and essential right talent, but works with too few and too showy gestures. And the storytelling is often unflexed and even languid. But along with entertainment value in its lighter moments, The Young and Beautiful has shock value and a pinch of substance...
...That fella on first, he gives me the big pinch-hit with 16 home runs in his first 32 hits [of his three first basemen. Casey is now talking about Ed Robinson]. So they say he won't be an outfielder [now, Joe Collins], but I'm not afraid to stick him in the outfield in the '53 series, and phew! What do they say in Brooklyn about me using a first baseman in the outfield? But he does me a good...
Leigh Hoadley, Master of Leverett House, said that the action "is certainly just a stop-gap measure to relieve the present terrific overcrowding. I have no worry at all that this would pinch-hit for another House...
...industry was in deep trouble. Some 30,000 small manufacturing plants, employing 850,000 workers, faced the possibility of closing at the end of the month unless they could get more brass and copper mill products. A shortage of copper had already curtailed construction in Minneapolis, was threatening to pinch thousands of metal fabricators. The shortage, already acute, was made even tighter by last month's devastating floods in the Northeast, normally a heavy production center...
Footsteps in the Fog (Columbia) whips up the classic recipe for a melodramatic potboiler: mix two engaging scoundrels (Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons) with a brace of murders, add a pinch of blackmail, a generous helping of blue London fog, some bilious green Edwardian interiors, the clop-clop of hansom cabs, and allow to simmer for 90 minutes over a gaslight flame...