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From President and Mrs. Reagan in the U.S., a Steuben glass bowl christened 'The Crusaders'! From the village of Doughton, bless 'em all, a sheet-iron weather vane for Highgrove! From the far-off land of Tonga, a bedspread, presented by-I want to get this name right-King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV and his wife, Queen Mata'aho, and hand-knitted by the Queen herself; let's have a round of applause for them both! From the Sedgemoor district council in Somerset - how about this? - a ton of peat! A nickel-silvered...
...suspense this situation generates is impressive. Beaten, starved, baked in a sheet-iron oven-how can the colonel possibly hold out? But he does. Backed by bayonets, stiffened by his code-how can Saito possibly give in? But he does. The British troops so successfully sabotage the bridge they are supposed to build that Saito is forced to ask the colonel's help, and to capitulate to his terms...
...every showing, 2,000 Syrians and their neighbors from other Arab countries sat entranced watching the motion-picture scenes and Commentator Lowell Thomas, and listening to the Arabic sound track booming out on the loudspeakers. At every showing there was an overflow crowd beyond the eight-foot sheet-iron fence enclosing the outdoor theater. Spectators perched like crows high in the shadows of eucalyptus trees, stood on auto tops and rooftops. Hundreds of others, defying the laws of balance and endurance of hu man muscle, stood spread-legged on the upper bars of the steel traffic-control fences outside...
...Dedication Day the temperature stood at 110° in the shade-and all the shade the crowd had was a few parasols and newspapers. Visiting bigwigs including Interior Secretary "Cap" Krug and Governor Roy Turner-were little better off under the sheet-iron roofing of their bunting-decked stand...
...beauteous pair escape to Hong Kong with their love and the Star of Asia. There Mr. Gable dons an army captain's uniform to rob a Chinese, only to find himself inadvertently evacuating British nationals from a city beleaguered by the Japanese. Amid a multitude of jabbering Japanese, sheet-iron tanks and other M.G.M. props, versatile Captain Gable, singlehanded, routs the invaders. Having exhausted the possibilities of the summer's foremost cinematic absurdity, Bombay swiftly rewards its wounded hero and dispatches him to prison (to pay the Hays office for his crimes), neglecting, in its closing haste...