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Dangerous Pets. In Manhattan, United Seamen's Service headquarters instructed its branches to stop sending gift cats to U.S. tanker crews. Reason: the static electricity in their fur makes them fire hazards...
Professor Richards states that British and American propaganda broadcasts to the continent used Basic, read very slowly, to combat the barrage of static which is put up by the Germans. "The BBC and the Voice of America use Basic quite a lot for anti-jamming," he said...
...through having to exclude the long-ago, the whole gradual development of Apley from a human bus into a human tram, that the play falls short of the book-in irony, humanity, completeness. But greatly enlivening the plotless story and largely static portraiture are a continuing comedy of Back Bay manners, the incidental commotion of Cousin Hattie's tombstone and the best of the rather too recurrent laughs about Harvard or New York. Despite the laughs, the Apleys in the play show traces of New York blood in their veins-just enough, while slightly clouding the tone, to quicken...
...once Ernie stands still enough to see the static pity of London's East End, and to know Ada's battered desire for security, he gets an angry fever for easy money, goes to work for Gangster Jim Mordinoy (George Coulouris). What he sees and learns under Mordinoy is anything but comforting, and where he finally winds up is not in heroics but in police court...
...shooting and considerable static, Sergeant Flanagan was not crystal clear, but enough came through to tingle listeners' scalps: from the quiet "All right, men, let's go" of the Marine commander, to Flanagan's terse "Here come the Nips...