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...despite all this helpful advice, the magazine ends its pages with a doleful note to its anxious readers: "Until further notice, 'College' will not be sod on the newsstands...
...Careless sod," said Squadron Leader Forrester...
...father tried it and struck a cool, clear gusher. Pieter nodded wisely. Some years later his schoolteacher lost a gold ring under the sand and Pieter found it for him with a single glance. Ever since then Pieter (now 16) has been kept busy peering through rock and sod in search of underground treasure...
...might turn out to be the limit of such prosperity. It was much too bright. Last week was two weeks past the time to plant winter wheat, but the soil was hard and dry; there was little of the subsoil moisture that makes for banner crops. The last good sod-soaking rain had been in September's first week. From the north Texas and Oklahoma wheat plains came disturbing news: planting was far behind schedule; some farmers were seeding dusty fields. There were no critical spots yet, but if the next week or ten days brought no rain, there...
With a threadbare story and a total lack of spectacular sunsets, or five-minute chases, Carol Red and his crew have filmed twenty-four hours of a lost cause with the realistic effort of a smack in the face. The dialogue bears the dewey stamp of the auld sod; the characterizations are revealing without being talkative; and the scenes are put together to make sense, not to elicit sentiment. The widely varied personages are portrayed with a concentration of acting that make each distinctive. The film strains the emotions, but, thanks to British restraint, net the imagination...