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...Braves are slow afield and on the base paths. Two good hitters, Bob Elliott and Sid Gordon, and three good pitchers, Warren Spahn, John Sain, and Vern Bickford should keep them in the first division...
Ladd plays a tough badman who, when asked if he has any friends, replies through his teeth: "My guns." In a scheme to pose as the long-lost son of a wealthy rancher (Charles Bickford), he takes off his shirt twice: first to let a tattoo artist fake a birthmark on his shoulder, later to dupe Bickford with the false credentials...
...movie gets the benefit of solid performances by Actors Calleia and Bickford, plus Director Rudolph Mate's efficient handling of a last-reel chase. But, like everything else in this saddle soap opera, the assets are defeated by the unstinted heroics of deadpan Actor Ladd...
...constituent. His attacks on Harvard were purely superficial: he knew all the members of the Porcellian Club by their first names and he had a strong friendship with several important members of the faculty. He maintained a "midnight table" for himself and his friends at the Hayes-Bickford cafeteria. Most of the time, these "friends" were students...
Traditionally the advanced student took his lodgings where he could find them, and generally high rents in Cambridge often meant he found them far away. The quality of his meals was directly proportional to the padding in his wallet. This meant Locke-Ober's occasionally but the Hayes-Bickford often. In either case, dinner table education was nothing to the graduate student but a memory from his college days. Education for the graduate student tended to be a tense business rather than the congenial occupation it had been before...