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Mickey Walker, the "Toy Bulldog," used to be famed for the wicked left hook that made him middleweight and welterweight king of the '20s. Now he has shifted hands, changed to a gaudy right. The old master has become an artist, a painter of genuine oil paintings...
...Ickes' Foreign Operations Committee avers that private enterprise is the better means to insure U.S. participation in world oil because "private enterprise can operate with a minimum of political complications." Mr. Ickes maintains just as stoutly that no foreign nation would dare to toy with a U.S. Government interest, as it might (and has in Mexico) with privately owned corporations...
...Christmas. He spent much of his time in his garden workshop. He made toy battleships and airplanes, repaired Joyce's doll house. Otherwise, toys being so scarce and costly, the children might have had no new ones for Christmas. He visited the school to see how his kids were making out; the teacher made him tell an assembly about "life in the desert." On his last night the family had a feast of roast lamb, boiled potatoes, cabbage, Queen's pudding-a spongy affair with...
...product of the cinemilitary career of talented Gene Kelly, who before the Army gets him is a temperamental trapeze star. Private Kelly's yearning to get back in the air (in a plane) and an approaching court-martial for breach of discipline cause him to toy with Kathryn Grayson's affections in hopes that her father, his Colonel (John Boles), will transfer him to the Air Forces. The Colonel wants a less insubordinate son-in-law. Aware that trapeze work involves a certain amount of disciplined cooperation, he asks the young artist's adoptive family, The Flying...
...Sergei Iliushin, head of a state airplane-design bureau, revels in the reputation of a Man-Who-Gets-Things-Done. Stalin often visits Iliushin's offices, gives unexcited pep talks to the staff. When Hitler went on his rampage, Iliushin began to toy with the idea of a flying tank-buster. The seed of the idea was the memory of a frying pan with which many a Russian flyer armor-plated his plane seat in World War I. Out of the frying pan came the fiery Stormovik, which has destroyed so many Nazi tanks that the Germans renamed...