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Chili Williams, "The Polka Dot Girl," wounded Dry-Goodsman William Schiller, who calls himself "The Polka Dot King." He had her under contract to wear nothing but polka dots (see cut), but lately, complained Schiller-a man who crosses his ts and eyes his dots-she had appeared dotless in public. He set out to break the contract...
...Nagasaki-type bombs (which forward-looking scientists and the Air Forces now call primitive "Model Ts") would be exploded at Bikini: one in the air, the other on the surface of the lagoon. So far, the plans concerned chiefly the first bomb, scheduled to be dropped about May 15. No one knew what changes of plans would seem prudent before the second bomb exploded. In any case, promised Vice Admiral W. H. P. Blandy, boss of Operation Crossroads, the test would not be rigged to favor the Army, the Navy or the bomb...
Summarizing his case, the man who reached the White House despite his crippling disease could not help but give his inquirer a series of "Dos" and "Don'ts." The "Don'ts": heavy massage, overexercise, exposure to cold, growing...
...that only harmonious U.S.-Russian relations can prevent such a war, that Russian aggressive policies are somehow caused by the fact that in the U.S. people are always grossly hurting Russian feelings. In a chapter called Getting Along with Russia, Scott offers some do's and don'ts whereby Americans may spare the easily abraded Russian skin. Americans who are reasonably sure that Russian policy is seldom motivated by hurt feelings and reasonably fed up with Soviet truculence may wish that Author Scott would write a similar book of etiquette for Russians...
...crude agreement to submit scripts to the Hays Office was not signed until 1924. It collapsed two years later with the advent of sound and the ensuing conflicts with the Authors' League over scripts. A year later, producers agreed to abide by a list of eleven "Don'ts" and 26 "Be Carefuls," but the broad interpretations they allowed themselves soon roused another storm of public protest. It was not until 1930 that the present Production Code, based on the Ten Commandments, was drawn up. And even that did not noticeably improve movie bad manners and morals until producers...