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...brick house, across from the green Offutt parade ground. There, in the evenings, he sits in a comfortable armchair pulling at his ever-present pipe. His gregarious, twinkly eyed wife Helen, whom he met 19 years ago at a dance, is not afraid to chatter, or to stray as far from the point as she chooses. SAC's officers have unconcealed admiration for LeMay's eleven-year-old daughter Jane, who frequently tells...
Though most of it seems to have been done before, the picture keeps its lines fairly bright and its slapstick (e.g., Cummings caught in a runaway sailboat) deftly timed. The best sequence is a fresh bit of visual comedy: Cummings and a process server stray unwittingly into a quick-change vaudeville act, and are thrust in & out of a series of ridiculous costumes...
After losing the second, minus-17, when Reckitt himself shot a perfect game, Defender Hicks played the rubber game with a grim seriousness usually frowned on in the garden variety of croquet. Kneeling, crouching, lining up every stray blade of grass for possible deflections, he got his second perfect game of the day. The spectators were sitting on the edge of their campstools when Reckitt made a strong finishing bid, but only a few shots from the final peg, he missed a difficult carom and the deciding game went to Hicks, plus-five...
Mayer first consulted microclimatologists, who study climate in specific areas; with their help he hopes to achieve what Major l'Enfant failed to accomplish in Washington-an arrangement of buildings that will catch any stray breeze...
...French correspondent at Shanghai who could not file a word. All the rest had withdrawn to the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong, where they were trying to cover the story of China's 450 million people from publications printed in Red China and by picking up stray bits from "well-informed travelers" (see FOREIGN NEWS...