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...across her brain. She believes legends to the effect that her medieval Serbian ancestors were half-cats, and that she cannot let husband Oliver Reed (Kent Smith) kiss her lest she sprout claws and rip him apart. Psychiatrist Dr. Judd (Tom Conway) delivers sermons on over-imagination. The tactless husband discusses Simone with Alice-at-the-office (Jane Randolph), gradually succumbs to her sympathy. After Alice is ambushed three times by Simone a la cat, husband decides to put Simone in an asylum. In the showdown, the pragmatic psychiatrist kisses Simone, gets the shock of his life...
...guesses as to what was behind Jerry Land's tactless talk, best guess was that he was plain tired of being needled. Like a bear with bees buzzing around its noggin, he had struck out wildly. His cronies were agreed that he was not thinking of N.M.U. or any other union; he was just plain mad-at newspaper talk about shipyard loafing, at union squabbles between Joe Curran's N.M.U. and the Seafarers' International Union...
...legal reasoning that prevents such returns, by declaring that companies have no post-sale control over records, is the same that will now prevent all new recordings when Petrillo's ruling that subsist on canned music. But the answer does not lie in dictatorial unionism and Petrillo's tactless tactics. These things and what they stand for must soon go the way of their big business counterparts...
Last week, of all times, sincere, stubborn, tactless Herbert Hoover, of all people, published a book (America's First Crusade; Scribner; $1.25). Of all books, it was the most untimely. It told for the umpteenth bitter time how Britain-now a life-or-death ally of the U.S.-and France cheated the U.S. out of its just deserts at the peace conference of Versailles...
...tactless, "a sort of Italian Caroline Lamb." She horrified one gathering, wrote Byron, "by calling out to me 'mio Byron' in an audible key, during a dead silence. ..." Mary Shelley found Teresa "a nice, pretty girl" but "her legs, in fact, were far too short for the weight they carried...