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...plot, involving a maze of confused love relationships, centers about the well-meaning female scatterbrain whom we knew in Kaufman-Connoly as Dulcy. It was a role tailor-made for Billie Burke, who acted it in the original version, but Joy Street's Adele Thane plays Laura with a vitality that is not beyond compare...
Solution. In Wilson, N.C., veteran loungers in front of Harry Walls's tailor shop worried when Walls moved away, feared that a new tenant might not tolerate them, rented the shop themselves and moved inside...
...strategy was plain: nominate Dewey, elect Dewey, have a tailor-made Old Guard candidate established for 1944. But to a big group of Republicans who distrust Dewey, it would be very bad medicine to ride to victory on the tails of a man whom they regard as a mere political opportunist. They are far from sure that it would be a ride to victory. Many of them think it would be worse for their party to ride to victory with a group whom they regard as reactionary...
...pound-horsepower ratio down to less than one-for-one for the first time in aircraft-engine history. Skilled manpower is saved; eight unskilled boys do work previously assigned to 150 technicians. Finally, the hydraulic press, one of the few large automotive-industry tools convertible to aircraft making, is tailor-made for the forging...
...Moon Is Down (by John Steinbeck; produced by Oscar Serlin). Primarily intended for the stage, The Moon Is Down was first rigged up as a novel (TIME, March 9), and inside five weeks sold almost half a million copies. Theoretically the tailor-made play should beat the makeshift novel all hollow; actually it can't come near it. Steinbeck's fable of how some unnamed but obviously Nazi invaders take over an unlocalized but obviously Norwegian mining town, meet with icy resistance and are themselves worn down, never really comes to life in the theater...