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...less than Chicago) has suddenly become important to the U.S. And Pat Hurley, angular but still handsome, is an important figure of a man. He joined the A.E.F. as a cavalry officer in World War I, was cited for gallantry, promoted to lieutenant colonel. He lately helped negotiate a ticklish oil agreement between the U.S. and Mexico (TIME, Dec. 9, 1940). Raised to the rank of brigadier general (reserve) last month, Pat Hurley stepped off into the Pacific before anybody knew where he was going. He went under sealed orders, left beauteous Mrs. Hurley behind...
...bang-up production job; and Nelson himself recently complained that Harrison was a disbeliever in conversion. But Nelson holds that Harrison was a victim of OPM's faulty direction, has faith that he will deliver the goods. Into Harrison's lap also falls the ticklish problem of subcontracting-with Financier Floyd B. Odium, who made the most recent unsuccessful attempt to solve it, moving to a nebulous post as "adviser...
...every U.S. city and town, a little group of citizens got to work on a delicate, ticklish, thankless job. They were the new tire-rationing boards, serving without pay, appointed to decide who should get new tires and who should go without...
...pure breeds of chickens have been developed whose sex can be identified by their markings as soon as they hatch. Sex-sorting of chicks has hitherto been a ticklish and difficult art. Unlike hybrid chicks, in which the sex difference shows up only in the first generation, the new breeds have sex distinctions which persist, according to the researchers who developed them. Developed at Cambridge, England, the new fowls are cherished in Britain, where only egg layers are wanted and it is a waste of food to raise young cocks until they can be identified...
...plot: the predicament of an actor who, to satisfy his wife's yearning for amorous adventure and to satisfy himself that she is faithful to him, dresses up in the uniform of a guardsman and tries, hoping he will fail, to cuckold himself. The demands of this ticklish situation (used by M.G.M. with minor changes) are simply beyond the histrionic capacities of the picture's two principals: wholesome, husky Risöe (rhymes with Pisa) Stevens, young (28) Metropolitan Opera demidiva, and dimpled, impassive Nelson Eddy, 40, who looks like a Midwest swimming coach...