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...series of routine movie roles, worked hard to lose her Southern accent, finally got a solid part in Whistle Stop with George Raft. Then little Ava ran smack into a hazard relatively rare in Hollywood-an Intellect...
After a skittish mare kicked Oregon's Republican Maverick Wayne Morse smack in the mouth at the Orkney Springs, Va. horse show, Washington reporters called at the Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Md. to see how the Senator was feeling, got their answer in a written note: "I have learned to roll with political kicks and punches, but I haven't learned how to absorb the kick of a horse...
...race to rearm, the U.S. and other nations of'the free world have run smack up against a key problem: How should the free world's raw materials be divided? By overlooking this problem, while it tried to grab up a lion's share of all the strategic materials in sight, the U.S. has already stirred up a storm of hostility among its allies...
...report of the Massachusetts House Committee on Un-American Activities, and the address in question has been a furniture store for severay lears, but you can't be too careful in these dangerous times. This new pamphlet is essential for every American who is determined to smack down the ugly head of Communism wherever he thinks it ought to exist...
...liquor than to leprechauns, The King of Friday's Men has some of the old Irish gift of words, while Dowd has some of the mighty human dimensions of folklore. And Actor Macken, who first played the part at the Abbey, brings real vigor to it, and the smack and caress of Irish speech. But the play's snatches of racy prose do not offset its stretches of lumpish playwriting. Too often both untidy and oldfashioned, it closed after four performances...