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...Ping-Pong Gun, Portable Planetarium. The air branches of the services became the prime movers in the synthetic devices program. They have invented thousands of efficient gadgets, many of them still secret, ranging from a cardboard pocket blinker for practicing ship signals to a portable planetarium. Some others...
...possibilities, it somehow gets itself satisfactorily told. To a great extent Philip Barry, and Donald Ogden Stewart, who wrote the skilful screen play, are to be thanked for this. In spite of a painfully whimsical addiction to locutions like "by gum," they write several pieces of conversational love ping-pong and one jagged quarrel which make the average piece of would-be-sure-footed screen dialogue look like a sack-race on snowshoes...
...yearning 'Cliffedwellers want all the nice servicemen at Harvard, regardless of the cut of their blues or O.D.'s, to come out to Agassiz Hall (ask any bespectacled, book-toting skirt for the direction) on Friday nights, beginning March 9, from 1930 to 2145, for ping-pong, darts, and dancing...
Newly arrived from Britain is a cheerful film, Back to Normal, showing young Britons merrily dancing and playing tennis and ping-pong, a carpenter at work with his tools, a child playing on a slide, a matron sedately pedaling a bicycle to market. What makes these ordinary goings-on extraordinary is the fact that all the actors are war-wounded cripples, with artificial arms or legs. The British Ministry of Information produced the film to reassure its bomb-battered people. It may be some comfort also to families of the 5,000-plus U.S. soldiers (the Navy has released...
Vandenberg (a nephew of Michigan's U.S. Senator) gets along with his crewmen and enlistees by talking air-slanguage with the slangiest of them,* playing volleyball and ping-pong with them, and usually beating them. A dashing figure in impeccable uniform, cap set at a rakish angle, he seems to be always in action. He usually flies his own Thunderbolt in hops to staff headquarters. Back at his own post, he wants a lot of his own staff around in the evening, insists on singing with a quartet although he cannot carry a tune...