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...Shade off the trees...
...talent. Last year he completed 60 per cent of is passes, and he is rated as the best defensive fullback at Penn in years. Quite a man, this Stiff. And his substitute, Bib Brundage, would probably play regularly for half the colleges in the East. He is just a shade being Stiff in offensive and passing ability, but he isn't as versatile...
...Rainier, miles away from regular mess facilities, mountain troops lived on Ration K for days, came through fit as fiddles. At Indio, Calif., where the temperature ran as high as 122° in the shade, a five-day trial gave equally nourishing results. The menu was surprisingly varied. Breakfast consisted of enriched biscuits, compressed graham crackers, veal luncheon meat, fruit bar, malted milk dextrose tablets, soluble coffee, sugar, chewing gum, four cigarets. Dinner was much the same, with the addition of powdered bouillon-but without coffee or fruit bar. Supper: biscuits, cheese, fruit-juice powder, chocolate bar, sugar, chewing...
...amazingly undraftable age, is plagued with the epithet "Sonny." Acceptance of the bogus New England village apparently implies belief in Colman as "Sonny." Cary Grant tries and tires his old, set role, and Jean Arthur still has a hair-do which goes up and down like a broken window-shade. Errors, slight in themselves, have a cumulative effect which shatters the pleasant spell of such lines as "America--that's the country where everybody is responsible to everybody else for everything...
...valley farmers paid $4 a day for workers they used to get for $40 a month-and saw those farm hands go off to $1.12-an-hour jobs building camps for 10,000 relocated Japanese. Most of the Japanese are farmers from California; now they sit idly in the shade, watching the barracks...