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...dances beautifully and Sinatra sings the roof off. They seem genuinely concerned over their deception of the girl. They seem genuinely worried when they find their own affections setting them at odds - a difficulty nicely solved, for Sailor Sinatra, by warmhearted Waitress Pamela Britton. And their four days' strenuous romancing is as rich as fruitcake with diversions and digressions. Among the best...
Bill Mauldin was born on a farm in New Mexico's Sacramento Mountains. He was a sickly kid with rickets who, to pass the time while others played strenuous games, drew pictures of himself riding wild broncos. At nine he sold his first picture-of a boy & girl crying over a puppy's grave. Bill sent it to Sergeant's Dog Medicines. The president said he could not use it in company advertising, but he kept it and sent Bill...
...Progressive Conservatives. "Farmer John" Bracken traveled more slowly, saw more people. He had made 20 formal speeches by week's end, had about ten to go. But it was not as strenuous as it seemed: he always delivered basically the same speech. On a typical day, he was whisked 50 dusty miles by auto from Regina to Indian Head, Saskatchewan. In the town's 100-seat theater, he labored stolidly through his speech. Chief points: Canada's war effort has been sad; there must be military conscription for the Pacific war. Text finished, he talked brightly with...
...story of one year in the life of a family of Texas cotton farmers: a sad, querulous, disintegrating old woman (Beulah Bondi), a young man (Zachary Scott), his wife (Betty Field) and their small children. This is the strenuous, upward year after they have climbed the rung from migratory labor to tenant farming. They are not, like the people in The Grapes of Wrath, caught in historical currents greater and crueler than they can fathom or successfully fight; mainly they are involved in a contest with the land and the seasons...
...Strenuous Life...