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...Corps who had so badly mismanaged the only source of replacement parts for engineers' equipment in the world that the War Department had to send in a special team to clean up the depot." And it ridiculed a general who explained that "he located a hospital in a swamp because he rode over the land on horseback in winter and didn't notice...
...conglomeration of ten unattached shorts, none of which stop the show, although there are several that slow it down a good deal. The film is weakened by the lack of connection between sequences; it is hard to jump from the snow covered forests of Czarist Russia to the swamp land of Louisiana with nothing more than a Valentine card in between to announce the transition. Only twice is the film worthy of the reputation of Walt Disney and of Disney's former achievements. "Casey at the Bat" features the voice of Jerry Colonna plus some very fine satire on rattling...
...swamp people had picked a favorite: muscular, moon-faced Herb Creppel, 24, who won the last big race just before he went off to be a paratrooper, three years ago. Now he was defending his championship with a shrapnel wound in his right leg. It didn't seem to hamper his long, powerful stroke. Uncle Emile was in the race, too, more for family support than anything else. They had to beat their traditional rivals, the Billiot family -and there were three Billiots in the race, headed by grim, 65-year-old Grandpa Etienne and Son Adam, a five...
Until a Congressional committee, poking around a swamp)' underbrush and prodding under stones, pried him into view in 1943, John Porter Monroe was just another Washington fixer. In the unkind daylight, Fixer Monroe swelled into quite a big bug. His "big red house on R Street" became notorious. That was where Monroe entertained industrialists who wanted war contracts and governmental bigwigs who had influence in handing them out. After much headline hullabaloo, the committee finally decided that slick Mr, Monroe was a nonpoisonous...
...spite of the loss of Doug Pirnie, ace sprint man, who pulled a muscle in his leg shortly before the meet, the track team took fourteen out of fifteen firsts o swamp Tufts and Connecticut in its opening meet of the season held last Saturday at Soldiers Field. The final score was Harvard 120, Tufts 27 1/2; and Connecticut...