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...Modern Art's display looked about as homelike as the waiting room of an up-to-date airport. Tea wagons that looked like bathroom fixtures shared honors with kidney-shaped coffee tables and tubular steel reclining mechanisms. Most of the weird-looking gadgetry was much easier on the spine than...
...Henry's show could be put over and kept running it would be a considerable satisfaction to the Allies. It would screen part of the Near East from the Nazis, give some spine to wobbling Turkey and boost the stock of the De Gaullist Free French who furnished the incidental music when they entered Syria with their band playing La Marseillaise...
Driven from Crete by these losses was a fugitive from injustice, George II of Greece. The King was separated from his troops by parachutists in the first hours of fighting, but he eluded them, rode on muleback for two days across Crete's sharp spine, embarked for Alexandria in a British destroyer...
...glue on the back of the book has dried, the book is "rounded" by beating with a hammer. It is then placed in a machine which presses the pages together in such a manner that the covers of the finished book will lie flush with the binding of the "spine", or back of the volume...
...Topper Returns," Hal Roach's third venture into ectoplasmic comedy, blends murder and laugher into a mixture which falls only inches short of a Bob Hope rib-tickling, spine-tingling cocktail. Bovine-bosomed Joan Blondell as the lady who vanishes and Roland Young as Cosmo Topper, the defective detective, pace an excellent cast which includes Rochester, Carole Landis, and Billie Burke. Much above the average little girl who isn't there type of picture, this is if anything better than Topper's first two appearances...