Word: shadow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...public health. The picture, which combines photographs with drawings, is called "Goodbye, Mr. Germ." It tells the adventures of "Tee Bee," who swims around from lung to lung, raising an enormous family, and drilling through lung-pipes. The germ, who wears a top hat and cackles like The Shadow, finally gets trapped in a sanatorium. Message: watch out for lingering coughs, get tuberculin tests and X-rays...
Last week, tagging along like a sinister shadow, came corresponding reports that crime as well as bomb fire was booming in London. The crimes were integrally tied up with the war.* Looting, which involved 140 people in September, rose in October to 250 cases, was still climbing, outnumbering other crimes five...
...curtain falls today on the greatest show on earth, which this year has featured only shadow-boxing and windy dialogue. Frustrated progressives have two courses open to them: to cut loose and form a third party, or to try to capture one of the two major parties. They succeeded in doing the latter in 1936, but in the last two years the roles of master and servant have been reversed. Labor and liberals have entered into a Babylonian captivity from which they must escape; not up the blind alley to which John L. Lewis has pointed, but along a bolder...
...independent movie production, scored one bull's-eye with The Scoundrel, eventually quit. This year, Columbia gave Hecht $260,000 worth of Hollywood backing with which he wrote, produced, directed Angels Over Broadway, another of his preoccupations with the regeneration of moral strays who have felt the cooling shadow of death. The three strays are a tippling, has-been playwright (Thomas Mitchell), a dapper drugstore cowboy (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.), a lady of the evening (Rita Hayworth). In a Broadway honky-tonk they tie up with a small-time larcenist (John Qualen) about to commit suicide rather than face punishment...
Finally out of the shadow of defeat, Chief Boston's Freshman football team is going to find that staying in the sun is no cinch. For in the last two games of 1944's short, five game schedule, the Freshmen will meet two other yearling elevens. Yale and Dartmouth, both bent on concluding their seasons in the successful glow of victory...