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...write for your own amusement, you can be as dismal as you choose, but the public continues to prefer entertainment to morbidity . . . I often feel that if I come across one more trauma or psycho-analyst's couch in a manuscript, I will become a manic-depressive and scream...
Engagements on the mainland followed. San Francisco thought Hattie was a scream; so did the patrons of Manhattan's sophisticated St. Regis Hotel. During the war, Hattie acted with Jinx Falkenberg and Betty Grable in a couple of sarong-draped movies. In the U.S., she also made some recordings and discarded her third husband (she is currently unmarried). Last year, between mainland triumphs, she went home and took to the air. With a disc jockey program on Honolulu's KPOA and an amateur hour on rival station KGMB, she registered her first solid hit with the natives...
...Communists in the National Assembly faced a dangerous situation last week and handled it admirably. The proceedings, however, were not dignified. The "Cocos" have had a lot of breath knocked out of them lately, but they always have enough left to scream insults...
About an hour after the takeoff, Master Sergeant Sutre Paijkull, in a rear seat, idly watched one of the Bristol's two propellers bite into a milky fog. Through a sudden rift he saw a mountain ahead, heard Chief Pilot Nils Werner scream: "Oh, my God." The next sounds he remembered were the soft voices of Italian peasants poking about the wreckage which pinioned him in pain...
...morning when the sardine fleet has made a catch, the purse-seiners waddle heavily into the bay blowing their whistles. . . . Then cannery whistles scream and all over the town men and women scramble into their clothes and come running down to the Row to go to work. . . . The canneries rumble and rattle and squeak until the last fish is ...canned ...and the dripping, smelly, tired . . . men and women straggle out and droop their ways up the hill into the town and Cannery Row becomes itself again-quiet and magical...