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Kiss the Boys Goodbye (Paramount) left Broadway in the form of a satiric comedy devoted to the triumph of an egomaniacal Southern belle over a house-partyful of intellectual Yankee drunkards. It emerges from the Hollywood wringer in the guise of a musicomedy burlesque of professional Southernism...
Typical cases last week: Ralph Ellmore of Essex got six months for stealing a washing wringer from a bombed house; two soldiers, William Hart, 19, and James MacDonald, 20, got a total haul of a cigaret lighter, cigaret case and cigarets, drew one day's sentence but were detained a fortnight. The loot was often trifling, but the principle was bad. Warned the News Chronicle: "If the looting went unchecked it would swiftly pave the way for social breakdown and anarchy . . ."; the Sunday Dispatch in an editorial titled "Forward the Gallows" snapped: "Someone should be hanged-quickly." Military...
...bigger roads going through the ICC wringer, Missouri Pacific had its capitalization halved to $347,411,000, its interest charges pared one-third. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific's yearly charges are now $10,685,000, were...
...Flanders and Picardy was a secret only rhetorically. It was no secret to any competent soldier on earth, and had not been since the fall of Poland, that the German nation, sustained by 20 years' hatred for their conquerors and hardened by 20 years in the economic wringer, had by self-denial and deadly concentration built the world's most magnificent military machine in six short years under fanatical Adolf Hitler. For it the war machines of the Allies-neglected and grown obsolescent during the democracies' social, economic and political travail of the past decade-were...
Fortnight ago SEC sent the sprawling, tangled Associated Gas & Electric system to the reorganization wringer by forbidding its subsidiaries to pay it unearned dividends (TIME, Jan. 22). Then it rolled up its sleeves to help the Federal court simplify and integrate the system built with 172 subsidiary corporations...