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Brennan's Judge Bean may not win the 1940 Academy Award, but it will give cinemaudiences a good idea why he is a director's actor. At 46, he is a World War I veteran (having lost his teeth and acquired a grating voice from a gas attack), a two-time Oscar winner (Come and Get It, Kentucky). Practically never on the screen without an old man's makeup, the real Brennan can still stroll unnoticed along the streets of Hollywood, a slight, sandy-haired, balding man who might be a real-estate salesman...
According to the Department of Agriculture's Economic Adviser Louis Bean, if the Democrats poll 33% of the vote in Maine they are likely to carry the nation. According to Dr. George Gallup, Democrats have to poll 38% in Maine to have a chance to carry the country...
...invasion of the St. Lawrence would be even more serious for the U. S. than an invasion of the Carib bean, it is also more difficult for an enemy to undertake. The sea route to South America and the Caribbean from Africa or the Azores is short (2,500 or 2,250 mi.), favored by fair weather and relatively difficult for the U. S. to patrol from its bases many hundreds of miles away...
Langtry, Tex., named by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean after the late, famed British Actress Lily Langtry, cabled an invitation to the Jersey Lily's daughter (Lady Ian Malcolm) and granddaughter (Lady Mary Bartlett) in bombed London: "Langtry's 200 citizens would be godparents to you. . . . He [Bean] would have wanted us to offer refuge to the daughter of the actress he so admired...
After the tumor peeled off, the patient was troubled with a new growth the size of "a large lima bean." When the doctors injected into it an arsenic compound, the lump disappeared in a few days. The patient lived "free from tumor" for two years, finally died of heart failure...