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...makers of Great Expectations had a magnificent story to begin with, and characters almost as magically compelling, in their peculiar way, as Shakespeare's. Yet both characters and story were plainly hard to bring to full life on the screen. The story is about young Pip (John Mills), a blacksmith's apprentice, who in childhood befriends an escaped convict, Magwitch (Finlay Currie), and a rich, decaying recluse, Miss Havisham (Martita Hunt).When Pip is still a very young man, he is snatched from poverty into Great Expectations. Miss Havisham's subtle attorney Jaggers (F. L. Sullivan) holds...
Loran shore stations always work in pairs: the "master" and the "slave" (see diagram). Both operate on the same frequency and both broadcast the same radio "pulse signals"-short bursts of radio energy transmitted at regular intervals. The pulse from the master station appears as a "pip" on the "scope" of the plane's loran receiver. It also sets off a second pulse from the slave station, which is received as a second pip. The pulses arrive at slightly different times, since they have traveled different distances...
Three days later, War Mobilizer Jimmy Byrnes published a long, dramatic statement, arguing: "We have the enemy on the ropes; he is dazed and his knees are buckling." Then he ordered a pip-squeak move: to place ceilings on employment in all nonessential industries, hoping thereby to send 200,000 workers to war plants. The Washington Post assigned half its staff to write huff-puff stories along General Somervell's line. But the Post and the General were struggling against a tide...
Monty has come a long way in the five years since he was a studious, all but unknown staff-college instructor, with a lieutenant colonel's crown-and-pip on his shoulders and an insufferable habit of talking down to his classes. But he was then what he is now, a completely dedicated professional, soldier, with a superb sense of the big things of war, and an utter contempt for the small...
Author Hay was a science master when readers noticed his first novel, Pip (1907), a sentimental journey into average British boyhood. In the next five years, the sales of three more boysome novels made Pip into a mere squeak. Author Hay gave up teaching for writing. His most successful novels: A Knight on Wheels, A Man's Man, A Safety Match. He hit the jackpot again with Britain's popular melofarce, Tilly of Bloomsbury...