Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cigarette firm once paid a Hollywood studio a fat fee to produce a short film. The short was about freedom-the freedom to buy whatever the heart desired "in this democracy of ours," especially the sponsor's cigarettes. The movie was so bad that audiences booed and jeered. Since then, industrial films, which are financed by corporations to make their special pitches, have become so slick and painless that at times audiences hardly realize they are getting some propaganda with the entertainment...
...peace was shown to be the perfect equipment for a leader of men. His troops marched until they dropped. Stragglers were flogged, deserters summarily shot. His veterans had a motto: "Man that is born of woman, and enlisteth in Jackson's army, is of few days and short rations." Yet with the instinctive knowledge that distinguishes the martinet from the great captain, his ragged "foot cavalry" so revered Jackson that, whenever a burst of cheering swept the camp, men would say: "It's Jackson or a rabbit...
...Funds Short...
Officials in the Program admit that funds are "a little short." Prices have simply gone up," one research fellow commented...
After winger Mike Reynal had been stopped just short of the line, fullback Jim Damis came up to take a pass from Hal Churchill for the final Crimson try. Joslin's kick again was good...