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Shot down over Italy in 1943, Colonel Joseph L. Ryan (Frank Sinatra) is sent to an Italian prisoner-of-war camp where he outranks and outrages a stuffy British major (Trevor Howard) and soon earns the prefix "Von" from the British and Americans he pushes around. After a sluggish beginning, Express starts to swing, and Frank swings with it, when the 400 Anglo-American prisoners are caught between retreating Germans and advance units of the U.S. infantry. After a day of freedom, the men are recaptured by Germans and packed into a freight train bound for the fatherland. They manage...
...does what a human typesetter would do, adding spaces if necessary to fill out the line. When it comes to a word that has to be hyphenated, which happens about every five lines, it hesitates momentarily while it consults a quick-access memory. If the word has a recognizable prefix or a familiar ending, such as -ing or -tion, the memory tells the computer in millionths of a second how to hyphenate correctly...
...Only eight of the numbers can be used for the first digit of a central office code since 0 (zero), now used to dial the Operator, is also reserved for a future person-to-person prefix; 1 will be used for station-to-station calls...
...also just completed one of the most successful polltax drives in recent memory. And it will probably add great vigor to the liberal effort in the 1962 elections. Despite its definite liberal orientation, however, it continues to insist that it is "trying to build a Democratic Party without prefix or suffix...
...thus farthest removed progeny of a robber baron. After acquiring a Swiss governess and later a secondary school education in Paris, our critic purchases four pin-stripe suits of recognized quality (perhaps also a pipe), adopts his middle name for use colloquially (reserving his first initial as a prefix to his universally respected signature), and enters Harvard. Once here, he soon verses himself in Henry James, and obtains a lock of hair from the cranium of F. L. Seidel, himself a great Advocate critic a couple of years ago, a man than which there was no meaner Martini mixer. Experience...