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...future, is the fact that Hollywood has not stopped to the more obvious methods of waving the flag. "Eagle Squadron" an otherwise excellent picture, was made sloppy and in many spots embarrassing by the long sequences lauding the British bull-dog spirit and overdoing the jolly-well, pip-pip, chins-up attitude of the average Briton. This has not been done in "Desperate Journey," but rather the director has let the actions of the characters speak for themselves in conveying the same idea. Needless to say, the latter method is by far the more forceful...
John English, also of the Herald, ventured to go out on a limb for the Crimson. "It will be timing and precision that will make the Harvard line superior, though Dartmouth has the better backfield. Frost is my favorite. He's a pip. It will be a very close game." Score, Harvard 7, Dartmouth...
...defense emergency for a powder mill to be operated by private industry, owned by the Government. Du Pont had signed one like it last month (for a plant at Charlestown, Ind.). These contracts were the first moves made by the U. S. Government to increase its pip-squeak peacetime powder supply. All Government powder now comes from three plants - Du Pont and Hercules and the Army's Picatinny Arsenal near Dover, N. J. - and Picatinny is on little more than a laboratory basis...
...happen again, the U. S. turned its back on $155,000,000 of Government investment in powder mills, sold out what it had built, and pocketed less than $15,000.000 in salvage. Result: when World War II came along, 21 years later, it had no more than a pip-squeak powder capacity, could not today come close to meeting its own wartime demand for powder for guns, large or small...
...many business troubles," writes Mr. Satterlee gravely. Not greatly troubled was the well-to-do Morgan family of Hartford, Conn., though little Pierpont's grandfather, red-nosed, craggy-faced Abolitionist Preacher John Pierpont of Boston, had fights with some of his non-Abolitionist parishioners. In his school days "Pip" was a fun-loving, feverish, arrogant character with a temper and a direct, wide-open gaze. He and Joe Wheeler, later a Confederate cavalry leader, risked their necks and expulsion to carve their initials on the school belfry. While Father Junius Morgan was becoming a rich merchant banker in Boston...