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...almost four years after World War II's end, Hollywood would as soon have made war movies as sown minefields in front of U.S. box offices. Then MGM's Battleground broke the jinx and, with Sands of I wo Jima and Twelve 0'Clock High, landed among the first ten moneymakers of 1950. Now the studios are releasing and shooting so many war films that faithful moviegoers may soon feel eligible for battle stars...
Under sharp questioning by grey, stooped Defense Attorney William Chan-ler-who described his client as a man who had sown his "mental wild oats" in his youth but had long since reformed-she admitted that neither she nor Remington had been "orthodox Communists." They had associated with Trotskyites, had not held party cards, had paid dues only irregularly. But she stuck stoutly to her story that she had frequently been along, as driver of the car, when Elizabeth Bentley and Remington met in Washington. On such occasions, she testified, she parked in various quiet spots, heard her husband...
...Constitutional Importance." But the whirlwind was already sown and the State Department never overtook it. U.S. News & World Report, which, relying on the release date, had gone to press with it last week, appeared on the stands with the full text even as Washington reporters hurried to the White House to inquire, in effect, what in hell was going...
...Orley Farm to put it first on the list of Trollope's works with which he plans to continue the current Trollope revival. Readers should not, as Trollope himself warned them, get the impression that Orley Farm is all about "cream-cheeses, pigs with small bones, wheat sown in drills, or artificial manure." As roomy as a barracks, as thickly populated as a small village, Orley Farm is one of the least bucolic, least loose-jointed of all his placid, jog-trotting accounts of life in the quiet Victorian countryside...
...radish being watered in the picture to the right is one of many that have mysteriously sprouted in the lawn plot between Wigglesworth and Grays Halls-Beans, carrots, lettuce, squash, ginnlas, marigolds, and sunflowers are also growing, along with the grass that the University has recently sown...