Word: slicings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prize. Powell is a $22-a-week comptometer clerk with three practical-joking friends who paste together a bogus telegram notifying him he has won the contest. By dint of some improbable inefficiency in the Maxford House organization, he collects the check, spends a sizable slice of it before the hoax is bared...
...French Department should make this film required movie-going, and that is no slur upon its entertainment value. In almost every scene there is a slice of provincial France. The earnest, effeminate priest and the super-rationalistic school-teacher involve themselves in endless, fantastic arguments. A two-for-a-nickel marquis, complete with gloves and plus-fours, drops into town now and then from his chateau, to have a quick one with the boys at the "Club." There are also plenty of village dim-wits, who won't speak to one another because their parents and grandparents wouldn't either...
WODEHOUSE ON GOLF - P. G. Wodehouse - Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Last week Author Wodehouse, captured by the Germans, was reported still at Le Touquet. In this collection of reprints, some dating from 1910, Wodehouse's bland, bumbling golfers hook, slice and burble their way through 844 pages of fairway, rough and green...
Hell & Heaven. The wreck of a country that is Spain today could use a few conquests - Gibraltar, probably a slice of French Morocco and Algeria, possibly a nip of Southern France - to divert the people's minds from their empty bellies, their sick and their war-crazed, their smoldering hatred and ever-present fear. Spaniards say: "It is hell now, but it is heaven compared to the war." Half a million are still in jail, packed six to ten in two-man cells, sleeping in two-hour relays. Twenty or 30 a day are executed...
...Recently the Vatican began trying to clarify the future status of apostolic nunciatures at The Hague and Brussels, the future of German Catholics, the position of Catholics in Austria and Czechoslovakia. But there was a significant omission : relief for the worst persecuted Catholics of all, those in the German slice of Poland. In the interests of diplomacy the Vatican appears willing to let their situation slide until the end of World...