Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ladies. Three new freshmen coeds, all Democrats, will join the six women already in the House. Prettiest newcomer is Hollywood's Helen Gahagan Douglas, 43, wife of Screen Actor Melvyn Douglas, now an Army major shepherding entertainers in the China-Burma-India theater. Miss Gahagan is a former Broadway star (Tonight or Never), mother of two, a passionate New Dealer. Another new Douglas (no relation) in the House is Emily Taft Douglas, daughter of the late Sculptor Lorado Taft, distant cousin of William Howard Taft. Her husband, a University of Chicago economics professor on military leave, was defeated...
...plays Laura, is murdered before the picture begins, her spectacular rise to fame and her peculiar death furnish the material for the plot. Detective Dana Andrews falls in love with a portrait of Laura. This upsets his sleuthing for a while until a near miracle occurs and the screen begins to swim with possible suspects...
...Electron microscopes do not let a man "look" at bacteria, nor do they take photographs. They spray electrons through a bacteria sample, making a silhouette picture on a fluorescent screen or photographic plate...
...characters and plot and, like many otherwise laudable stories about democracy, a shade too sanctimonious, The Master Race is nonetheless an unusually pointed, serious, well-made picture. When the cornered villain jeers at his enemies, "You fall out among yourselves. . . . Victory is a nightmare to you. . . ," the screen play makes articulate a fierce and needed admonition to all men of good intention. When Miss Gates, cajoled in a sinister way by Mr. Coulouris, nervously binds and unbinds the hair ribbon of her precarious girlishness and stares with swelling excitement into her mirrored face, she makes clear a notably mature...
...aerial pounding during its approach, and reached the scene of battle first. The first-quarter moon had set early, and the morning darkness was deep in Surigao Strait. At the southern end, squadrons of PT boats lay in ambush. As the Huso and Yamasiro entered the narrows with their screen, the PTs attacked. The tiny, bucking craft had made their reputation for dash and expendability in the Philippines, and they lived up to it. They scored some hits, lost several of their number...