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Secession Sentiment. As the settler population doubled and doubled again, the rising ferocity of Indian resistance was not the only danger. Beyond the Indians to the southwest were the Spanish in New Orleans, the "stopper in the Mississippi bottle," blocking the only cheap export route. Behind the Indians to the northwest were the British, arming the tribes, pre-empting the fur trade, still holding Detroit and the other lake posts they had agreed in the peace treaty to give up. The feeble Continental Congress in Washington was weeks away by hard roads and not much interested in backing...
...Favorite Martian (CBS) has a stopper of a girl too. She is Kathy Kersh, Miss Rheingold of 1962, and even a Martian can appreciate her mellow malt and hops. The show itself is really an animated cartoon that uses live people, chiefly Ray Walston as a professor of anthropology from one of the numerous universities on Mars, lately arrived by saucer. He disappears at whim like Topper, and he sprouts antenna horns that boing amusingly. Younger cats should...
...humor lies a good deal in the direction of mugging, but it is muggery of a very high order indeed. As Dick Dauntless, his nautical foster brother, Peter Larson overcame a vague singing voice by the force of his agile personality. His first act hornpipe was a show stopper...
...whom you feel obliged to sympathize. Neither Sinclair nor Barrow is a particularly pleasant character, but at least the latter has an excuse for being both stubborn and conciliating, commendable and pathetic--he has undergone torture in a World War II prison camp. To Mills, also, goes the show stopper, should the film stop for a splendid job. Barrow, overpowered with anger at Sinclair's flagrant violation of orders grips the stem of his martini glass, his face burning into a mask of hatred. He cannot continue his polite conversation; he cannot speak; he cannot move. Finally a reaction comes...
...Press Stopper. This fall Ellender was at it again. It had long been his ambition to visit every country in the world (he keeps track of his record on a wall map in his office). He had just about satisfied that yearning when lo and behold, Africa began sprouting a whole bunch of brand-new nations. So off he went to Africa. In Morocco he paused to express a variety of opinions. "Egypt," said the segregationist Senator, "hasn't achieved anything great since the Pharaohs began practicing desegregation with their slaves . . . Ethiopia would have nothing if it weren...