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...Merry-Go-Round, Editor White explained: "We. felt the authors, Mr. Pearson and Mr. Allen, were too anxious to print . . . matters which would offend the censor and possibly give aid and comfort to our enemies. . . . These young men are good reporters. They are honest and conscientious but just a shade too enterprising for these troublous times...
More placidly told, the main story concentrates on the young woman Tanni and the war's effect on her relationship with the Buddhist Lao Peng and with her lover Poya. Tanni is a girl with an equivocal "past," revealed with a shade more suspense than it deserves. Poya is a parlor strategist of no mean talent who can discourse on erotic esthetics and who, for a while, is all she knows enough to need...
...only occasion when it had no big guns to work with. Battery D was the first unit rushed to Washington during the Civil War to look after the capital's defenses, saw action at Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg. In World War I, the battery spread its death-shade at the Marne, Cantigny, the Argonne, Saint-Mihiel, was among the last units to return from France. Many of its numerous battle streamers were won in World...
...shutter-snapper can obtain full color prints instead of black-&-whites from his negatives. The new film (called "Kodacolor") differs from former color films in that it makes a transparent negative from which prints can easily be made on paper.* As a negative, not only are its light-&-shade effects reversed but its colors appear complementary to those of nature...
...Isbell-to-Hutson has become to football what Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance once was to baseball. This season, completing 117 passes in 206 attempts (for a gain of nearly a mile), Green Bay's Isbell has put Washington's "Slingin' Sammy" Baugh in the shade...