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...Neil doesn't give you a Parker pen for Christmas, he's a chintz. Reason might be a certain newly-acquainted Miss by the familiar name of "Parker." Morgan "Doughnuts" Dester hasn't made any doughnuts of late, but all's not dust that doesn't shine, so "old John" may be coming through soon. The missing link--Wolf by name--promises to show his Big Green face soon--he's from Dartmouth. Hyde of Harvard, who did undergraduate work across the River, claims many laurels for the Boston womenfolk. Of course, he may be a bit on the biased...
...Tammany as a power in Manhattan politics. All leaves and vacations were canceled for New York's 15,000 policemen. To the members of New York's garment, clothing and furriers unions-usually off on Saturdays-went orders: be on hand to greet the President, rain or shine...
...room for only 250 inside the mortuary. Mrs. Willkie sat beside her son, Philip, a Navy lieutenant rushed back from convoy duty in the Atlantic for his father's funeral. Loud speakers were set up outside, and people stood on the lawn in the thin autumn sun shine. Three small boys sat on the mortuary steps self-consciously, hats held care fully in their laps; their elders greeted each other with the formality peculiar to small towns on grave occasions...
...currents move faster & faster. Soon the growing whirlwind, given a counterclockwise spiraling motion by the earth's rotation (it is clockwise in the Southern hemisphere), resembles a vast phonograph record, with a hollow core, the vortex or "eye" of the storm, through which the sun may shine on the turbulent sea below...
...Love A Soldier" rolls along on its aimless way in the same manner as a hundred other mediocre movies. The most striking characterization is that of the street car conductor, played by Barry Fitzgerald, who remains calm through rain, shine, and traffic jams...