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When the three officers were marched into the Delhi courtroom last week, their faces were grave. Colonel E. K. Squire, resplendent in ribbons and scarlet collar tabs, began to read the verdict: "All three of you are guilty ... of waging war [against the State]. . . . The sentence of the Court ... is transportation for life, cashiering and forfeiture of arrears of pay and allowances." One prisoner blinked, another swayed, the third looked fixedly ahead...
...palace chefs would have the night out; special caterers have been engaged to provide as lavish a feast as possible in austere Britain. Wines, including Krug champagne of the famous 1928 vintage, have been carted over from the royal cellars at Buckingham. Servants will don their prewar liveries of scarlet & gold and blue & gold...
...happen in fruit orchards from indiscriminate use of DDT. The woolly aphis is not bothered much by DDT, while the Aphelinus parasite, which normally discourages woolly aphis, is wiped out entirely. In orchards where the red spider has been kept under control by its enemies, "trees have been literally scarlet with red spiders after being sprayed with...
...reviewing British films for the past decade, the picture takes retrospective glances at scenes from such pictures as The Scarlet Pimpernel and Colonel Blimp. The film also introduces a few British faces still new to U.S. audiences: Googie Withers, Ann Todd, James Mason and Stewart Granger. This timely short should make U.S. cinemaddicts curious-and Hollywood's cinemanufacturers nervous-about Britain's celluloid exports...
...Mike Pearson's most convivial ambassadorial assignments. He posed happily with Greer Garson (see cut), gently ribbed the industry for "romanticizing us into a nation of scarlet-coated Mounties who are concerned impartially with getting their men and pursuing their women." He pointed out that it had taken Canadian actors to portray U.S. Presidents on the screen (Walter Huston and Raymond Massey as Lincoln, Alexander Knox as Wilson...