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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Payne, as the novelist, just hasn't got enough screen personality to make Saxon's dominion over him seem worthwhile. The wife, Susan Hayward, registers tender anxiety throughout without much success, and Audrey Totter, as Saxon's girl friend has to cope with the sort of "I-love-him-the-brute" part which was thoroughly explored by Clara Bow a long time...
Last year when I went to the Hygiene Department for a routine excuse from physical training, I was stealthily given some sort of sleep drug. Later, I discovered that while I was unconscious the doctors had, without my permission or extra charge, performed a radical prefrontal lobotomy on me, Specialists that I have visited since (at $25 a visit) have advised me that the Hygiene Department did wrong. I do not think so. Ever since the operation, I've led a happier, more contented existence. Nothing worries me; my roommates love me. My grades also have improved markedly...
...against a tastefully setting sun; they are more genuine than that. They stand guard in the rain; they gripe about their food; they get tried and try to quit. Not once do they leer at some dance-hall floozy in a clap-board Honky-tonk. "Red River" avoids this sort of bunkum and gives a convincing picture of a cowboy's existence, laced as it is with dust-clogged nostrils and empty stomachs...
...escape alive from the fastest planes, the pilot will need some sort of detachable "capsule." One possibility is a streamlined cylinder built into the belly of the plane. The pilot in distress would crawl into it and pull a handle. A parachute would then open and drag the cylinder out of the rear of the plane. A more elaborate device (kinder to the pilot) is a detachable cockpit that can be blown free of the plane by a set of explosive bolts...
...week in towing fees pried from unhappy students. At the same time, University police have been distributing tickets and fines with their usual consistency; so student drivers have been forced to shuttle their vehicles from one spot to another, and have usually would up with some sort of a summons for their troubles...