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First Sgt. Morris Isacowitz played the part of benefactor by arranging for the attendance of the entire population of Mather Hall at a Boston Brave-Cincinnati ball game on Thursday. With the grand cooperation of the Buddies' Club in Boston he was able to procure ducats gratis...
...best news in Washington last week had to do with feeding the world. Many a U.S. citizen has feared that his Government would 1) set up the vastest and most hopeless charity scheme in history, 2) earn the usual unhappy reward of the starry-eyed benefactor, 3) make the U.S. people so tired of serving as international milch cow that a new wave of isolationism would sweep the country. Last week brought signs that such fears can be forgotten...
...outlined in the annual council reports, the funds collected from pledges are employed to meet the needs of local and national charities, with the Red Cross a typical benefactor...
...leading roles, and others like Perey Kilbridge, the witty Yankee taxi driver, Frank Craven and Richard Whorf supporting them, the entire cast turns in a collectively good job of acting. The picture starts with the death of Robert Forest, a prominent and well loved politician, soldier, and public benefactor who turns out to be an enemy agent. Tracy, an admiring newspaper man back from the world battlefronts, dedicates himself to writing the story of Forest's life. He encounters Katharine Hephurn, Forest's wife, and in the process of investigation discovers that she could have prevented the accident...
That there can be business as usual despite total war was admirably demonstrated by a Harvard student who was trying, evidently without success, to convince a benefactor that he would get his twenty bucks as soon as the next check arrived from home...