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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thrill of a Romance," playing on Friday, you get the formula musical, dull, plush, and empty. The main attractions here are Lauritz Melchior singing "Vesti la Giubba" in the lobby of a slick Western hotel, Esther Williams in some submarine contortions, and Van Johnson as his usual creamy self...
...beyond the usual peacetime expenditures for domestic disaster and sick relief, it has a large budget for foreign relief. Last year the Red Cross spent $2.5 million in Austria alone. This year it has already scheduled distribution of more than $5 million worth of supplies to Rumania and Hungary...
Inventor Land's speedup process takes all the steps at the same time. An ordinary commercial film with an opaque back is exposed in the usual way. The photographer pulls it out of the camera along with a sheet of special paper. Attached to the paper is a "pod" (containing a viscous chemical mixture) which is broken when it passes two small rollers. The chemicals are spread evenly between film and paper, sticking them closely together (see diagram...
Polaroid's 50-second pictures appear to be of good quality, certainly up to amateur standards. The process is not affected by ordinary variations of temperature. The exposure need not be longer than usual, and the photographer need not count his 50 seconds carefully. If a picture does not suit him, he can snap another immediately and hope for better results within the minute...
Wylie thinks he has the answer for juvenile delinquency, the high divorce rate, national psychoses such as Naziism and "iron curtains." He presents his answers, as usual, in ups & downs of personal sharpness and pseudo-scientific bombast, glib epigrams and gassy notions, often pungent and more often appallingly slipshod prose. At his best, Iconoclast Wylie pinpricks as sharply as H. L. Mencken ; at his worst, he is as full of unenlightening heat as Westbrook Pegler...