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...such spurts. Its classic plot can never be entirely dull, but Playwright Job has made things seem unnecessarily oldfashioned. As sheer melodrama, Thérèse doesn't pump up enough action; otiose characters keep chattering their heads off. It doesn't pack enough suspense: there is no taut atmosphere of guilty tongue-slips and sharp, suspicious glances...
...Truman style of brief, factual announcements. Most of them liked it, even if the news gushed forth without much background information, and never anything like the parables Franklin Roosevelt delighted to tell. A few newsmen, mostly the kind who do "think pieces" and need something to prime the pump, yearned for the artful skirmishes, the nods and becks and significant smiles, of the 45-minute-long Roosevelt conferences...
Never has more mud been pumped, slushed, squirted and squooshed, and I beg to report that the Connecticut clam is far mightier than the slush pump. Needless to say, it will take many years for TIME to regain my confidence after this disappointing experience...
...otherwise misled. I read with great interest an article concerning the genus bivalve mollusc, or clam, in your Aug. 20 issue, whereby it would appear some enterprising character named Higgins had revolutionized the time-tested method of clam-digging through the use of a plumber's helper, slush pump, or what have...
...prepared its own shock absorber. According to an industry-wide survey made by the Department of Commerce, U.S. manufacturers plan to spend some $4.5 billion for plant expansion during 1946. Expenditures by public-utility companies and the railroads may reach $1.5 billion. More than that, industry plans to pump out $2.8 billion to restock its depleted inventories of non-military goods. Civilians may spend as much as $100 billion for goods...