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Over his head waved a punkah, drawn by a white-clad woman disciple. About his body was a simple cotton loincloth, the thread of which was spun by his own hands. In one hand he held a rag, which he constantly dipped into a bowl of water by his side and wiped over his shiny bald head. About him followers and secretaries knelt crosslegged. Gandhi looked old as wisdom, skeleton-thin, sharp, birdlike; now all his teeth are gone. He seemed in remarkable spirits...
...peace. But in playing up its political side the I. S. S. organ has not entirely lost its former spirit. Continuing "to foster non-political student writing," the editors have suffered obscure poetry and bad cartoons to remain in the new environment, and weighty deliberations are illustrated with bedraggled rag-dolls that could have been drawn by Munroe Leaf's kid sister...
...lecturer was Robert Coffin, a hulking, fat-jowled Belgian swing critic known to hot jazz devotees as author of the first serious book on the subject: Aux Frontières du Jazz (1930). Critic Goffin both looked and sounded authoritative. "Tiger Rag" said he, "is the second tableau of a quadrille I used to dance to in Brussels as a boy." Phonograph records illustrated his points...
...their wings and their nonretractable landing gears. The next minute two P-40s came plummeting out of the clouds and the show was on. The Japs broke formation. One of them was hit squarely with a burst from a P-40. It flared up like a gasoline-soaked rag, plunged earthwards, crashed in its own bombs. The two other dive-bombers jettisoned their loads and streaked away. One of them was smoking when he turned. The P-40 on his tail gave it to him again and finished him. The third Nip was overhauled on the other side...
...slim story to hand on, but with the material they had to work with, the producers could probably have filmed a hit if they interspersed glimpses of the Boston telephone directory to sustain the plot interest. Every ditty that horse-and-buggy gramophones ground out is here, from "Tiger Rag" to "After the Ball" and "My Melancholy Baby." With a couple of the screen's best song-pluggers, Mary Martin and Bing Crosby, to do the honors, these old--but not outworn--Hit Paraders pack all the punch, plus a good deal more nostalgia, than they had in their prime...