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Nerve Center. A few dirt roads had once meandered through Guam's hills. Now three-and four-lane paved highways laced the island, leading from harbor to cold-storage plants, asphalt works and ammo dumps. Spread across the island were neat tent cities where marines lived between campaigns, rest...
Racism in Canada is even more virulent and vigorous than in the U.S. We have had pitiful pleas from Japanese-Canadians and Caucasian-Canadian friends of the Canadian Nisei asking if some pressure might not be brought to bear by America on the Canadian
The Great John L. (United Artists) is chiefly notable as Bing Crosby's first effort as a producer. It dutifully records the Boston Strong Boy (Greg McClure) as he rises to fame and florid magnanimity - through his unhappy marriage with a betighted showgirl (Linda Darnell), his un happy love...
Their nearest neighbor (J. Carrol Naish) is a man so confused and embittered by his own poverty and ambition that he does his best to frustrate their attempt to better themselves. They get a derelict house into shape, desperately watch one of their children wither under pellagra, raise a crop...
For four weeks Bet's mother and neighbors frantically scoured the countryside, advertised in the papers, even appealed to the local conjuror (a frightening man who wore a full-bottomed black wig backwards, peering through its curls like a sheepdog). Then, on the evening of Jan. 29, Bet appeared...