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British television has had a straighter, though slower growth than its U.S. cousin. In all Britain, there is only one telecasting station (in London's Alexandra Palace), and there are only about 30,000 television sets, mostly in the London area...
...selling single record of 1945 (more than 1,000,000 discs). Como versions of another Chopin tune, I'm Always Chasing Rainbows, and Dig You Later ("A Hubba, Hubba, Hubba") which has sold over a million records, are on the current jukebox best-selling lists. Como sings them straighter than slow-drag Sinatra, but with somewhat less ease than The Groaner, Crosby. Says Como: "I can't explain the different techniques in Crosby, Sinatra and me, unless it's that one's bald and one has curly hair and I wear my hair short...
Some of the executives in Warners' studio seem to be doing some pretty straight thinking about the war and about international politics; a lot straighter thinking, certainly, than Paramount's director, Sam Wood, who diluted "For Whom the Bell Tolls"; and straighter thinking, too, than the MPA (Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals--also called the Motion Picture Bund, the Brain Storm Bund, and others unprintable) which attacked Warners' "Mission to Moscow" as "Red" and "fourth term" propaganda...
Studying his hillside corn, Farmer Stiles found that a yellow burn from the dry ground was creeping up the stalks. In his bottomland the stalks stood straighter and greener, but they were far too short for August corn...
...litter bearers stopped to rest. When they put the sergeant down he said: "Say, Doc, would you mind straightening my leg out?" What was left of his leg could be no straighter, for it was splinted between two rifles...