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...Hollywood is a fisherman with an expensive rod," wrote Producer Dudley Nichols (Mourning Becomes Electro) in the New York Times, "and it will not sit all day and go bankrupt and bait its hook with what the fish don't want. And this fisherman has found [that] the abundant fishing is in the troubled waters of adolescence and all its concomitants-violence for the sake of violence . . . physical action for the sake of action . . . glamor that is not beauty, sex with a snicker. . . . Don't blame Hollywood for all this: blame yourselves...
...There has appeared on the world scene [a] Shakespearean Shylock, revengeful, unmerciful, insatiable in his greed. . . . There never was a Marshall Plan but there was a Shylock Plan. . . . From the moment of his speech, dollars and only dollars have served as the gigantic bait ... for ... the western section of Europe...
Clevelander Eaton had been one of the first financiers to recognize the shift of power from Wall Street to Washington and he had acted accordingly. In the early days of the New Deal, he was always available to bait Big Business, notably the "eastern bankers" whom he blamed for his downfall in the depression...
First tryouts and rehearsals for the band are scheduled for today in the Payne. Band Room from 2 to 5 o'clock and from 7 to 9 o'clock. Further tryouts for anyone from tuba players to baton twirlers are set for Wednesday evening. As bait to lure new members the band offers choice seats at the football games and a chance to get seats in the cheering sections for companions...
...Bait for potential Freshmen life and drummers, besides the best seats at the games is the chance to have guests, feminine or otherwise, in the cheering sections. First tryouts will be held at Sanders Theatre today and tomorrow at 7 o'clock. First full rehearsal is at Sanders. Sunday from 3:30 o'clock to 5 o'clock...