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Near Troy, N. Y., a WPA foreman saw a motorist drive smack into a road construction project. The foreman bawled: "What have you got above your eyebrows?" Above the eyebrows was the skimpy-haired pate of Works Progress Administrator Harry L. Hopkins, who later chuckled: "It's a great thing to be deflated. I found out I wasn't such a big shot...
Undaunted, 500,000 Britons jampacked Epsom Downs last week. As the field of 22 three-year-olds pounded down the curving hill into Tattenham Corner, Pasch was leading and looked as though he might be the sixth favorite to win the Derby since the War. But suddenly, smack in front of the grandstand, a mysterious horse shot out from behind, passed Pasch, passed Scottish Union, streaked up the hill to the wire, four lengths in front. It was Bois Roussel, a French-bred 20-to-i shot, owned by Hon. Peter Beatty, son of the late great Admiral Lord Beatty...
...William Henry) -set out from ancestral Saint John-cum-Leigh (pronounced Sinjin-comely) to un-smirch the escutcheon. Guided by Director John Ford (The Informer, The Lost Patrol), their juvenile, helter-skelter quest roams two hemispheres, seldom loses its bearings. By thrusting Hollywood's dreamiest-eyed glamor girl smack up against a methodical machine-gunning of a screaming mass of helpless men and women, Director Ford shows modern war technique in outlines no cinemagoer can fail to comprehend. When, after that, the film attempts to whitewash the munitions industry, it succeeds only in getting itself all messed...
...factory and the slum together composed the "non-city," and no authority existed by which they could be segregated. "Workers' houses . . . would be built smack up against a steel works, a dye plant, a gas works or a railroad cutting." Hanley, England (see cut) is an example. In workers' housing the one-family room became standard from Dublin to Bombay. Coketown (Mumford's name for the industrial city taken from Dickens' Hard Times), was so shrouded with smoke that "the black stove pipe hat was almost a functional design...
Last week Broadway producers got their worst smack in the face in years. Five major playwrights-Maxwell Anderson, Robert E. Sherwood, S. N. Behrman, Sidney Howard, Elmer Rice-curtly announced that they were going into business for themselves, as a group...