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...July 16, 1911, just about the time Irene Castle was starting her U. S. career. Before Ginger was born, her mother, Mrs. Lela Emogene Owens McMath, took to visiting art galleries and other prenatal pastures. She did this because she was convinced that she was about to bestow something unusual on the world, and while not sure of the effects of prenatal influences, she did not wish to miss any bets. Mrs. McMath's premonitions were confirmed. As soon as she had given birth to her daughter, she visited a local photographer who made a portrait of mother...
...Give a Million (Twentieth Century-Fox). When word gets around the Riviera that a millionaire in tramp's clothing has 1,000,000 francs to bestow for one kind deed, a wave of benevolence envelops every mudlark and ragamuffin in the South of France. But to the real millionaire (Warner Baxter) a pretty circus performer (Marjorie Weaver) is most kind, and nobody doubts who is to get the million. Result: a comic-opera Riviera, almost but not quite a lively, amusing farce...
...comparatively young man (he is 32), amiable, dimple-chinned Dr. Carl David Anderson of California Institute of Technology has accomplished a great deal in science. In 1932 he snapped the first picture of a positive electron. For this discovery he won the highest honor Science can bestow, a Nobel Prize. His pioneer positive electron photograph has become historic. In the Physical Review last week, Prizeman Anderson printed a snapshot of another kind of particle which may also become historic...
...through the land, it is interesting to glance at the political stage for 1940. Roosevelt is still without question the biggest political figure among the twenty-five million people known familiarly as Democrats. That he will accept a third nomination is officially doubted but that he will designate and bestow his blessing upon his successor is unchallenged by all political seers. And from the ranks of the elect he will probably select one of the following three stalwarts, Cordell Hull, Henry Wallace, or George Earle...
Three years of patient work on the part of Dick Harlow and the players with whom he has labored have been responsible for this great change, and it has become almost commonplace to bestow the credit where it belongs without any regard for the intensely hard fight the coaches have had these few years. Lest anyone think complacently about Harvard's success on the gridiron this year as something bound to come in the normal course of events, let him remember the spirit that prevailed at Soldiers Field three short years...