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Unlike the pseudo GI celluloid tripe dished out by Abbott and Costollo. "Hargrove" is an easy to look at picture of a home town rookie who can't get "on the ball" but who has enough natural intelligence to add four and four and get more than a headache. Slapstick is present, of course, but is held to a minimum as poor Hargrove progresses from cleaning garbage cans at Fort Bragg, North Carolina to cleaning garbage cans aboard a convey bound for action...
...these books must choose either 1) to be bored by an author who elaborates a fancy plot without turning it into a moving story, or 2) to be stirred up by an authoress who turns a passion inside out on every page. It is a choice between cold tripe and hot tripe...
Personally I think that is a lot of tripe...
...striper begged your columnist to take a few moments off from his studies in order to resume his contributions. The dignitary in question emphasized the importance of keeping a column in the NEWS for any necessary announcements that need wide publicity. He must think somebody reads this tripe. The only announcement for today is that cokes and apples will be served in Morris D-14 tonight at 10 o'clock sharp. Beware of flying coke bottles when you enter--we have a little game we play modeled afted the Army one of machine gun bullets at 30 inches, Slightly dangerous...
...feelings toward news merely by tone of voice. Their daily entrance into 30,000,000 U.S. homes is very inti mate and puts a premium on voice rather than on brains or integrity. This accounts for the fact that much of the output of U.S. radio pundits is pontifical tripe...