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...subtitles. The film deals with primitive Mayan life and culture. Produced in 1941 and starring Arturo de Cordoba, it twice won the Mexican Academy Award and was favorably received in New York. This is the first time it has been presented in Boston and if the experiment is a success the Spanish Club will continue to make top-notch productions available to the Harvard audience...
Widespread Success. When the war came, ACS was immediately put to use. Injections have become so general that proud Professor Bogomoletz last week told a Red Star reporter that "at present, the anti-reticular-cytotoxic serum has been widely and successfully used in all hospitals and clinics for curing the consequences of war injuries." Red Star carried stories about men now at the front who would have been legless or armless but for ACS. The professor says the serum does not cost much and is easy to make (Russia made 3,000,000 doses in 1943); he recommends that Russia...
...followed by Dumas' Anthony, a more sensational success than Henri III. Paris was ravished by Anthony's closing speech: "She resisted me. I have assassinated...
...size at 16 to 18 pages. Its bookkeeping was done in red. This month's 72-page Farm Journal and Farmer's Wife (wed in 1939) went to more than 2,700,000 subscribers, and Patterson chalked his cue for a long reverse shot. Success had frozen his cue ball fast against the paper shortage...
Victory & Defeat. That policy brought one disaster when the Prince of Wales and Repulse sought a surface battle and ran instead into crushing Japanese air power. It brought a rueful success when the unarmored merchant cruiser Jervis Bay tackled a heavy raider force and went down with her guns blazing, saving a convoy by her sacrifice. But it paid off richly in the destruction of the Graf Spee, paid off again in the trapping and sinking of the Bismarck, paid off in every engagement with the hapless Italian Fleet, paid off in the timely sinking of the battleship Scharnhorst (TIME...