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Ziegfeld Girl (Metro -Goldwyn-Mayer) is a prodigally star-crammed, $2,000,000 exposition of how the late Florenz Ziegfeld's leggy ladies won their Zs. It is also the final glorification of Lana (The Ramparts We Watch) Turner. Henceforth the eupeptic starlet is scheduled to shroud her most publicized charms in the toga of a dramatic actress...
...then, through a hole in that pink shroud, there twinkled incongruously a permanent, genuine star-the old-fashioned kind that has always been there. . . . These things all went together to make the most hateful, most beautiful single scene I have ever known...
...last week a familiar spectre of the U. S. countryside had thrown off his shroud, picked up his dinner pail, gone back to work. The ghost town was coming to life. Field representatives of the Defense Advisory Commission, notebooks in hand, scurried through cobwebby, long-idle factories in Ohio and Illinois, dying mining and industrial towns in western Pennsylvania. Engineer Morris Llewellyn Cooke, a lieutenant of Commissioner Sidney Hillman, released to manufacturers a report of facilities available to 15 ghost towns. He planned to farm out defense contracts (Britain's "bits & pieces" system) to these "shutdown areas," thereby spreading...
...others attacked Sidi Barráni. On the alert for planes, forced to keep up a desert "guerrilla-artillery" battle, Sidi Barráni also awoke last week to find the British Fleet off shore. As the sun nosed over the desert mesas, warships nosed out of a shroud of morning haze. A moment later their guns belched salvos pointblank into the heart of the city. Observers in the warships' fire-control towers said flames leaped up, were still visible at sea two hours later. For the third time in a week the British Fleet had pounded troop concentrations...
Lifting the shroud of official secrecy that has obscured "the case of the ten assistant professors," the Administration yesterday released a memorandum outlining its actions "previous and pursuant to the adoption of the Report of the Committee of Eight...