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Hollywood's No. 1 box office bait in 1939 was not Clark Gable, Errol Flynn or Tyrone Power, but a rope-haired, kazoo-voiced kid with a comic-strip face, who until this week had never appeared in a picture without mugging or overacting it. His name (assumed) was Mickey Rooney, and to a large part of the more articulate U. S. cinemaudience, his name was becoming a frequently used synonym for brat...
...natives were swearing by the Roosevelt luck (he arrived on Feb. 18; No. 18 turned up in the lottery); out in the Pacific he was most likely swearing at it. Score reported at week's end: one blue crevally, one amberjack, two small fish, one broken line, three bait-raiding sea gulls...
...Americans to write about the United Kingdom is not really to blame. The poor fish is the average reader who on both coasts of the Atlantic selects the worm to taste before he swallows the hook. Even you, mighty angler that you are, must not tell them the bait is phony; otherwise, we shall all go short on Fridays...
...something might be done about U. S. grievances before the China war ends. Most significant, it was the first concrete example in many months of ascendancy of Cabinet over General Staff. On the surface it looked like a sincere gesture of appeasement. But beneath the surface it looked like bait...
...summer it is Sea Bright, Southampton, Newport, Rye-staying at the best hotels or draw-my-bath private homes. In the winter it is Palm Beach, Bermuda, Jamaica. In the spring Pinehurst, Asheville, Hot Springs-guests of hotel managements that occasionally offer more attractive bait for players than mere traveling expenses and $30-a-day suites. Some tournament promoters have been known to offer lump-sum traveling expenses that could take the player to Buenos Aires and back. Now & then a well-heeled promoter has even been known to get around the amateur code by making a friendly little wager...