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Nearing the end of his fabulous career as a child actor, Jackie Cooper*, now 9, according to the Motion Picture Almanac, but so mature that gestures with his tongue will soon seem idiotic, makes Bill Peck a lovable urchin, sure to appeal to all chronic admirers of juvenile pictures. For making Peck's Bad Boy enjoyable also to less susceptible cinemaddicts, small Jackie Searl deserves the credit. A brat whose thin, disdainful, pasty face has made him villain in so many films that he has been called the Boris Karloff of his generation, he acts with his customary blood...
...modern authors write about them in Promethean language. Time was when farmers figured in literature only as comic oafs or sullen clodhoppers, but Now in November pipes a more stately pastoral. Written with a slightly self-conscious sonority, this story of a Missouri farm reads like a poeticized almanac with a tragic ending...
...other day, before the rainy season confined us to our rooms, we were walking with a friend on the banks of the Charles. It was about six in the evening, while there was a slight chill in the air, the evening stars were bright, and, if our intellectual almanac does not err, there was a bit of a moon. Dew was on the grass--at any rate, it was wet--and we were in tune with nature. Suddenly we saw ahead of us a couple. They were a plain, stubby couple, but they were arm in arm, and obviously...
...Freshman's preference of the "Yale Records" to the "Harvard Lampoon." We might also commend their pertinacity in resisting the wiles of the coy cowboy, who presumptiously attempts to arbitrate on their literary selection--a task hardly suitable to a constant purveyor of "Collier's Weekly," "World Almanac" and "Bunk...
...custom, Mr. Newmyer had been reading TIME up to the point of turning out the lights Friday evening. In the Feb. 6 issue was a column advertisement of the Benjamin Franklin Hotel, Philadelphia, listing a February almanac...