Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the last four years, when the young men who will leave the College today were both reasonably mature and reasonably irresponsible, most of them had some acquaintance with the world. They found that it was what everyone said it was: a big, frightening place presided over by the Great God Job. That's why most seniors, on this last day at the College, suddenly feel a sense of uneasiness and regret. The soft days are over...
...Yale baseball game, the Rev. Nathan Wood, Paster of the First Baptist Church, Arlington, will deliver the invocation to the Radcliffe graduating Senior Class. An ambitious scribe might well draw an analogy here and point out that with the advent of joint instruction, Radcliffe is finally coming into the big leagues; that Harold L. Ickes is warmed up and will deliver the pitch,--and that the Radcliffe Class of '49 is fielding the largest number of married students in history...
...plot is really a clash of the Silas Marner theme. Hope, as the doleful bookie, is a miser. Mary Jane, dubbed "Shorts," lands on Jones' doorstep when her father is killed for accidentally discovering a big race fix. Jones is callous towards his new room mate at first, but as the story progresses, he becomes more and more attached to her; the movie's neatest trick is conveying with subtlety Jones' growing affection for his ill-gotten ward. The first night that Shorts stays with Jones, she asks him to sing her a Lullaby. Jones complies, singing the tune...
...Sorrowful Jones" is a refreshing departure from the routine of Hope pictures. Laecille Ball, Mary Jane Sanders, and a host of very competent supporting actors take over very well for the Crosby-Lamour due. But the script is the big thing; with a real character to portray and with a wealth of Runnyon's humorous situations to draw upon, Hope is the best he's been in years...
...fuel to the fire by showing how very far from an under-standing of real democracy they are, while at the same time well-intentioned authorities like President Conant decry the witch hunt only to admit its fundamental promises. The Commission seems to say. 'Let us not have a big witch hunt--let us have a moderate little which hunt...