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...Pilgrim No. 1 was Acting Secretary George Novack of the American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky, whose most eminent member is Socialist Norman Thomas, no pilgrim as yet. Last June the Trotskyist Communists of the U. S. merged with the Thomasist Socialists. Normally benign, Mr. Thomas becomes vehement if given opportunity to deny "the canard" that perhaps Trotsky and Stalin are not altogether sincere undoers of each other's work. In the Thomas camp it is an article of faith that Stalin, as Dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, is an enemy of "true Socialism...
...rounds about a mysterious denizen of Hollywood who called himself John Montague, refused to let himself be photographed, told no one where he came from or how he made his living, and never entered golf tournaments where he might attract publicity. The rumors were so wild that even when benign Sportswriter Grantland Rice, who is too serious about sport to hoax his public and much too wise to be beguiled by Hollywood hoaxers, wrote a column in which he called Montague one of the world's greatest golfers, no one took him very seriously. When Westbrook Pegler labeled Montague...
Three Smart Girls (Universal). Under Carl Laemmle Sr., Universal Pictures Corp. made a specialty of horror pictures. Last spring when benign old "Uncle Carl," who had generously padded his staff with relatives, sold the company he had founded, Banker John Cheever Cowdin and his associates, who bought it, promised profound changes. As an example of what to expect from an alert group of hard-boiled banker-showmen, Three Smart Girls should interest exhibitors. Universal's most ballyhooed 1936 release is the daintiest, quaintest, most hygienic little musicomedy of the season, written, directed and performed with such evident sincerity that...
...Romagna (Burgess Meredith) gets a clue 15 years later when he learns from a newspaper clipping that Garth - suspected at the time of knowing something about the murder - was never called as a witness. To the dank tenement under an East River bridge where Garth is living with his benign old father (Maurice Moscovitch) and his innocent young sister (Margo), Mio goes one rainy win ter night to learn what Garth can tell...
...along intellectual rather than social lines. House libraries, the selection of the tutorial staffs and especially careful selection of entering concentrators could all be brought to bear on developing this trend. Discussion groups or societies, instigated and continued by, the students themselves, could be fostered and stimulated by the benign interests of resident members of the faculty. Outside lecturers might be called in, dinners held and opportunities taken to maintain such a tradition, if once started. Indeed, ample means could be found to preserve house personalities and cherish them once the initial impulse had been given; with the final result...