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...make a few pictures, hire others from independent producers. It was on such a lease arrangement that RKO took over Schary in 1946 from David O. Selznick. The first four pictures he made for RKO (Spiral Staircase, Till the End of Time, The Farmer's Daughter and The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer) helped lift RKO's 1946 net income to $12 million, more than double the previous year...
...past 35 years, Sonners has become something of a tradition himself. A former cricketer, though he never won his blue, he wrote the chapter on sport in the Oxford handbook. A confirmed bachelor, he accepted an invitation to a B.N.C. ball, with the stipulation that he be allowed to bring his own date. He arrived with his date on his arm: the Lord Chief Justice Baron Goddard...
...hitting the road to visit his most influential "constituents"-the farmers. Sproul convinced them that the university was doing a good job, sold himself in the bargain. In 1930, when he was only 39, Sproul, who had never taught a class in his life, and had only a bachelor's degree, became president of the University of California...
Sproul thinks it would help if every baby were awarded a bachelor's degree at birth; that might satisfy those interested only in the prestige of a college education. A good many others, he suggests, should be shunted off to junior colleges and vocational schools, to be given the education they really want and are fitted for. That would leave the university free for what Sproul considers its real responsibility: the specialized work of the junior and senior years, graduate and professional schools, for exceptional students...
...Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer. Shirley Temple loves Gary Grant who loves Myrna Loy who thinks she loves Rudy Vallee, with fun & games for all (TIME...