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Intourist tourist may ask why, but never finds a Russian who seems to know. Ambassador Davies did not have to make this senseless detour, was routed direct. En route he dictated his impressions for transmission later to the State Department, cracked jokes and told Washington yarns in the vein of his good friend Jim Farley. Every winter since anyone can remember the Five-Year Plans, it has happened at Rostov that "snow is delaying car loadings." Last week there was about an inch of snow on the ground and sure enough car loadings were delayed, with costly Soviet farm machinery...
...more lyric vein, Mr. Babson concludes that the only safe hedges are things like health, culture, children, friendship, birds, flowers, the sea and the sky. And Mr. Babson advises against entering any period of inflation or revolution without a clear conscience. "Jesus may not have been much of a theologian," admits this moderator of the Congregationalist Church. "He, however, was a real economist...
...consumption the comedy is naturally of that level. The constant hammering of a joke does not, however, seem absolutely necessary. The sequences depicting life in a newspaper office are, as usual, somewhat strange. But this is a minor point, for one of the film is done in a serious vein; and the mad antics of city editor Ameche and star reporter Power only add to the zest of the thing...
RORY AND BRAN-Lord Dunsany-Putnam ($2.50). Adventures of a half-wit youth and his dog in the pixillated Irish countryside; in the same vein but not the same class as James Stephens' Crock of GoId...
Died. Robert Milam Caldwell, 61, nephew of Democratic Elder Statesman Colonel Edward Mandell House; when an electric grindstone at his ranch exploded, hurling a pair of sheep shears against his throat, severing his jugular vein; near Houston...