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...this West Coast cupboard saga profits from retelling. Remaining within the casual domestic confines of Kathryn Forbes' original story, Hollywood has wisely refrained from introducing any heartbreaking scenes to remind the audience that this is the most socko treatment so far. Instead, Mama and her family carry the yarn in terms of routine actions and the result is a mood picture of satisfying substance...
Mister Roberts. Rowdy, romantic yarn of life on a cargo ship during (but far from) the war (TIME, March...
North American Rayon Corp., seventh largest U.S. rayon yarn maker, and its sister company American Bemberg Corp., have had a troubled history. In 1940 the U.S. Government, suspecting that their parent company, the Dutch Algemeene Kunstzijde Unie, N.V. ("AKU"), was partly German-controlled, froze the properties, but allowed the U.S. directors to run the companies...
Immigration men consider that yarn a venerable chestnut. Almost every Oriental picked up for illegal entry into the U.S. has tried...
...kill of the "unsinkable" Bismarck. The Nelson caught torpedo hell off Malta, came back for an hour of triumph: on Sept. 29, 1943, the Italians went aboard her to sign their surrender to General Dwight Eisenhower. The "Nellie's" captain, A. H. Maxwell-Hyslop, likes to tell a yarn about an engagement off Normandy. "I had gone to bed one night after two or three nights without sleep," he relates. "There was a frightful crash and I ran on deck, thinking of a robot bomb. But a landing craft, filled with newspaper reporters and, I think, steered...