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Next day the editor snorted in his front-page column: "When you help to overturn a man's applecart, wreck his gravy train, expose his motives and frustrate his purposes, it is but natural for him to be indignant about it. However . . . not even a rattlesnake will attack without warning...
...love affairs, and deep, dark young-girl secrets. But the sentiment is seasoned with humor-as, indeed, the whole film is; Charles Winninger, a hopelessly absentminded Wall Street begwig, is constantly funny, and Deanna herself, in the course of straightening out her sisters' affaires du coeur, upsets the conventional applecart on many a delightful occasion. Add to this the music--which, this time, included "The Last Rose of Summer"--and the whole is well-worth the holdover which, we have on good authority, is scheduled...
...except Henry Ford. In 1938, he quarreled with his co-founders and lieutenants, and his union of 375,000 men (third largest in C. I. O.) was saved from falling apart only when John L. Lewis practically took control of it. Last week Homer Martin upset this much-joggled applecart...
Before Princeton and Yale are to be worried about, however, the Crimson tankmen must consider the strong challenge Brown will make tomorrow evening to upset the Uien applecart. The Bruin swim team apparently has some of the glant-killing tendencles of its football men and will be correspondingly hard to beat. But Captain Rusty Greenhood's bunch is determined that the finish of tomorrow's meet will find Coach Ulen smlling. If a Harvard team has to have a 28-meet string broken, it's certain that either Yale or Princeton will be slightly more welcome as breakers than upstart...
About 15 years ago, when modernist composers were making heyday, the most puritanical modernists of all were the Viennese Atonalists.* While their fellows boisterously and good-naturedly jounced the sacred applecart of musical structure, the Atonalists systematically bored into that structure like so many worms. Their music was as painful and persistent as a dentist's drill...