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Calumet Farm did it again last week. Wistful, a sleek chestnut filly trained by Calumet's Ben and Jimmy Jones. (TIME, May 30), charged through the stretch at Belmont Park to win the Coaching Club American Oaks by a half length. The victory stamped Wistful, an odds-on favorite, as easily the best three-year-old filly in the U.S.; it also cinched another $48,700 for Calumet Farm...
Some time during the next few weeks four sleek, glossy-blue Navy fighter planes are going to try to shoot down a high-flying Air Force B-36. The fighters will use camera guns, because the B-36 is a highly expensive airplane; both services have stuck a security blackout on other details of the operation. The experiment will either aggravate or end one of the bitterest inter-service rivalries of the last generation...
Short on plot, Canyon is long on curry-combs and pancake. Most of the principals, both two-legged and four-legged, look as sleek and dustless as the population of a dude ranch. To give their implausible doings a sagebrush flavor, the dialogue is spiked with labored cracker-barrel idioms, e.g., Ann is "pretty as a blue-nosed trout," another character as "crazy as popcorn on a hot stove." No one but the popcorn addicts and the very young will mistake Canyon for anything but a dull movie...
...heavy fog over Germany. The nation which produced Goethe and Goebbels, great cultural triumphs and human incinerators, has always produced eerie contrasts. Today, these contrasts seem to have taken physical shape. The face of Germany is hideously scarred-and yet, almost every where, one sees another face which is sleek and smooth...
...told than '46 Album will be ready by this June--just three years after it was due, just in time for the class reunion. We are told by the '47-'48 book's staff that their volume will be kingsized, bound in fine old leather, printed on sleek paper--but we haven't seen either of these tomes...