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Columnists, editorialists, Republican politicos last week made hullabaloo over Henry Agard Wallace in his dual role of Secretary of Agriculture and Democratic nominee for Vice President. The clatter did not so much disturb as astound Mr. Wallace. He saw no difference in himself before and after the nomination...
...Love Came Back (Warner) is based on the supposition that if a group of down-at-lip jazzbabies suddenly began swinging such melodies as Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody, a Chopin Nocturne, and Mendelssohn's violin Concerto in E Minor, their daring would astound and conquer the musical world. Such a feat bowls over Amelia Cornell (Olivia de Havilland), who has a violin scholarship in a conservatory and at first explains that she will hear no music that is not "classical." When Amelia in turn bowls over the conservatory's goatish old patron (Charles Winninger...
Radio) may well astound cinemaddicts who saw the comedy by the same name on the Manhattan stage a year ago. To playgoers, the particular merits of Arthur Kober's study of a group of unmoneyed young New Yorkers vacationing in the Berkshires were that all of the visitors at Kamp Kare-Free were unmistakably denizens of The Bronx and that the author had caught, with sympathy but cruel precision, all the semi-miraculous gradations of Bronx Jewish dialect. As presented on the screen, nothing but the name of the camp, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.'s aquiline profile...
Altogether, Henry Armstrong is a fairly rare individual. His strength and his stamina astound fight fans. Although his legs are spindly, his shoulders and arms are as brawny as a stevedore's. At the end of 15 rounds of whirlwind boxing last week, he was breathing no harder than the average person who climbs a flight of subway stairs. His amazing stamina doctors attribute to slow heart action. His powerful arms and shoulders Henry Armstrong attributes to his first job: swinging a sledge hammer in a railroad section gang...
...Many of the scenes in the moving pictures of the Panay sinking," he cackled, "were faked in American waters." Then, with reporters too amazed to ask him which of the grimly bloody scenes he referred to, he went on to astound them even more...