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...Hasty Heart. The year's best adaptation from the stage; a moving, tender story, edged with humor, about a dying, misanthropic young Scot (Richard Todd) who finds friendship in a Burma army hospital (TIME...
...ignition system which a few flying chunks of steel can knock out of commission. It has fewer oil lines; it can get along, in fact, with very little lubrication. It needs no cooling system, except the air passing through it. The engine of the propeller-driven F51 has a tender pressurized cooling system with radiators and more than 20 feet of lines, and if any of these is punctured, the engine "freezes" quickly from overheating...
...major U.S. literary figures, Sandburg, during a long productive life, has developed least as a writer, changed least as a man. His poetry, dredged raw from the look and experience of "the people," is from start to finish a shrewd, tender, cantankerous and lovingly slangy impressionist folk-portrait. Even his monumental biography, Abraham Lincoln, ungainly and near-noble, is a research-buttressed prose poem to a people's hero and many of its cadenced passages are as good poetry as Sandburg has ever written. Most modern poets use a language so private that it divorces them from...
...discover just how much dough could be squeezed out of Junior-a process approached in much the same spirit as that with which the Texas Rangers squeezed information out of Mexican bandits-it seemed improbable that the growing nervous system could stand much more stimulation, or that the tender, childish gullet could gulp down more bread, breakfast food, candy or soft drinks...
From an early age Christopher had a yen for the theater. At six, he appeared on the stage, in a civic pageant, and got his first critical notice. Said the local paper: "A lively and comely lad of tender years performed a hornpipe...