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...Beachcomber John Russell and his mangy crew reckon without the courage of Mailman Jerome Courtland, the awshucks hero who plunges under water to wrestle alligators hand-to-jaw when the safety of Heroine Terry Moore is at stake. And they fail to figure on the cunning of Dude Robert Cummings, a polysyllabic confidence man who comes from the North to swindle the Floridians, and stays on to save them. Whenever Cummings is in a tight spot, he reaches to his watch chain for a pistol the size of a tie-clip and plugs his assailant with a Lilliputian slug...
...movie has it, Hitler erred not in war but only in love, when he moved in on Adler's blonde wife (Patricia Knight) and conveniently committed Adler to prison. Hitler failed to reckon with a vengeful zeal and a talent for impersonation that enabled Adler to move painstakingly up the Nazi social ladder in the successive roles of the prison warden, Hitler's valet, and finally the Führer himself...
...rhinoceros has no political significance. It was chosen as an identifying symbol because rhinoceroses are rare in Burma and hence presumably hard to duplicate. That, anyway, is how the Burmans reckon...
...selling for $400 an acre, compared to $350 last year; from Ohio westward to South Dakota, swollen farm prices boomed real-estate prices as much as 20%. With the U.S. demanding all-out farm production for defense, and with high prices guaranteed by federal support programs, most farmers reckon that the price of their land will go up a lot more...
...singing was inspired: "I reckon I shall never see, a poem as nice as this here tree. A tree that looks at God all day, because it cannot run away...