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Old and young American favorites showed up short of wind, but still long-winded. The late Theodore Dreiser's last novel, The Bulwark, had the weight, but not the distinction, of a Percheron. Upton Sinclair's A World to Win did no more than mark another 600-odd...
A long-winded story about theatrical life, the film is as crowded as the busiest Balzac novel with people, city noises, brawling and lovemaking (see BOOKS). The setting, too, is Balzacian: the sprawling plot tries to keep up with half a dozen leading characters as they move through 1848 Paris...
The world premiere of Song of the South was scheduled for this week, with appropriate Hollywood razzle-dazzle, in Atlanta, the only city Uncle Remus himself really knew. The movie's success in the South, which unabashedly dotes on the good old days, is already assured. The film critic...
Other Republicans who would step into House chairmanships: Appropriations-New York's arch-conservative John Taber, loudmouthed, long-winded but an expert on government finance; Ways & Means-Minnesota's bullet-headed Harold Knutson, small-minded and vindictive, who believes that the graduated income tax and the excess profits...
One hundred-seventy short-winded and flabby-muscled House football enthusiasts have been running through light drills, learning basic plays, and receiving much-needed physical conditioning this week in preparation for the season's opening as October 17.