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...Boogie (Freddie Slack and his Orchestra; Capitol). Blues prairily twanged by Vocalist Ella May Morse...
Baxter, who recently returned from Great Britain where he was working for Colonel Donovan's Office of Strategic Services, spoke on his impressions of "England in Wartime." According to the Williams President, "England is today making the maximum effort. There is very little slack left and the British need us. They have a great respect for the quality and leadership of American officers...
Founded in October, 1941 to take, up the slack in undergraduate thinking which inevitably took root as the United States approached closer to World War II, the Council had as its aim to provoke serious thought and discussion about post-war problems and interest in international cooperation...
...scutted fawn of Felix Salten's somewhat candied forest idyl. Disney animates Bambi from birth to buck. He is an appealing, wonderfully articulated little deer, whose progressive discoveries of rain, snow, ice, the seasons, man, love, death, etc. make a neatly antlered allegory. Bambi's rubber-jointed, slack-limbed, coltish first steps in the art of walking are, even for Disney, inspired animation. The undying affection bestowed on him by a young skunk, whom Bambi inadvertently names Flower, is grade-A Disney. His wide-eyed encounter with an old mole who pops up just to pass the time...
...m.p.h. When one of the Army planes at the school starts out along the ground, towing three two-place glider trainers on graduated ropes, the little 300-lb. ships take off first, float about 50 ft. up, pointing their noses down to give the ropes some slack so that the plane can get off. Once in the air, like the yachtsman who watches the trembling sail lest it spill the wind, a glider pilot must keep his towline taut or suffer a jerk when it suddenly springs tight. Even in the air, an instructor makes a student keep his ship...