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Millions of U.S. citizens have heard of her-at second hand. No one ever quite catches her name. She is a large-bosomed, pushing, middle-aged woman, a shade too richly dressed. She has popped up on a streetcar in Schenectady, N.Y., a cocktail bar in Detroit, a bus in Houston, a Manhattan shoestore. She always remarks, in a loud, smug voice, that the war is making her prosperous and she hopes it goes on & on. At this point, a patriotic woman bystander lets go with a well-aimed umbrella, handbag, or whatever is handy...
...Franklin Roosevelt in a walkaway. His popular percentage was a shade lower than in 1940, his Electoral College vote a smashing victory. Once the returns began piling in, there was never any doubt...
...shade too diagrammatic in its 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...
...type of grass that Southerners are hailing as the ideal verdant sward was reported from Louisville last week. It grows a lush, vivid green in the hottest, dryest weather, rarely needs to be mowed (it seldom grows more than four inches tall), does equally well in sun or shade, is so tough that an automobile skid does not scar it. In the south, it has been found ideal for airfields, golf tees, parks, and as a general ground cover. For northern areas, there is a hitch: the grass does not grow very successfully in cool climates, and frost turns...
...Manhattan last week, Patrolman Joseph Gardner took into custody a modern exemplar of this excruciating old breed. Officer Gardner got his evidence by spending an evening with one eye glued to a crack in the window shade of Peter Gorgak's barbershop on Third Avenue. Through this peephole he could see in the barbershop mirror an incongruous sight: Mr. Gorgak sitting in his own barber chair having his teeth drilled and dentaled up by a stranger...