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...McKeough, is no ball of fire. In his seven years in Congress he has sponsored no important legislation, has made few speeches on the floor, has rubber-stamped all New Deal legislation, with only one painful exception: he voted last August against extending the draft. He has saved his slambang oratory so exclusively for Cook County that he is relatively unknown downstate, even to most party leaders. His only opposition...
...near Carthage (45 miles south of Shreveport), they found that the red-necks had blown up everything usable. But Colonel William H. Morris, commander of the 66th Armored Regiment, learned of a ford downstream. He led his regiment down a dirt road toward the river, and ran into a slambang battle that for two hours threw the 66th back on their caterpillars...
...officers are white; all of them are 30 or younger. (In the U.S. Army, Negro regiments get picked officers, and officers generally vie for assignment to them.) His 1,250 privates and noncoms are Negroes, mostly from the South. Together they have made the 41st a slambang outfit which has supplied the training cadres for 14 other engineer regiments. In all, some 3,300 Negro recruits have gone through Joe Wood's mill...
...fact that Carrie Nation and even the Will Hays office couldn't find anything to kick about doesn't make "Sim Sala Bim" any less of a slambang, rip-roaring event, which makes up in excitement what it lacks in sex. You can bring your mother-in-law to see it, all right, but you'd better make sure she's got a sturdy constitution...
Nobody in Venice last week seemed to know how the trouble started but there it was-a glittering portrait of Cinemactress Marion Davies by Tade Styka, hanging, slambang, in the vestibule of the American Pavilion at the 10th Biennial Art Exhibition. Ever since the Exhibition opened in mid-May visitors thought it strange that this work by a Polish artist should be so prominently displayed in a U. S. collection supposedly owned entirely by the Whitney Museum of American Art. Last week, in London, Mrs. Juliana R. Force, the Whitney Museum's energetic director, thought it was so strange...