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...solution for the shrinking dollar of student veterans was offered by a man who identified himself as Mr. Hayes, president of the Boston branch of the Hayes-Bickford Lunch System. In following up a complaint (verified) about the reduction in size of a ten-cent bottle of milk, an editor was explaining how student veterans were particularly affected...
Frederick Authony Bickford...
...General Electric eye timer clocked them doing 118 m.p.h. at the finish line.) Linney's final four-heat time-4:25.96-was 1.66 seconds short of the course record he set two weeks ago, but an impressive five seconds ahead of his chief rival, ex-Marine Jim Bickford, the prewar champ...
Francis Scott Key's The Star-Spangled Banner, which officially became the national anthem only 14 years ago, was given a going-over by Cinema Burlyboy Charles Bickford, who wanted Congress to take it all back, substitute America the Beautiful. Wrote he to his Senator: the old anthem is "a great fight song,"' but inappropriately bloody now that "we're entering an era of peace...
Eddie's father (Charles Bickford) loved and believed in machines as his son did. Eddie's mother (Mary Phillips) felt that machines were "against God and nature." This semi-mystical debate on the virtues of the machine, which underlies the whole picture, is soberly set forth but not very convincing. But much more of the film concerns the comedy of archaic machinery, and that comes off much better (with expert help from James Gleason as an auto salesman, Chick Chandler as a demon fairgrounds aviator, and Fred MacMurray as a grease monkey...