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...much of a war anyhow: a few people do get killed, but they are mostly the enemy and it's all done with a smile. How Cary Grant happened to want to marry Gertrude Michael, his nurse in a Cairo hospital, is not made clear--apparently he was just born that way. He did nevertheless; but the situation was complicated by the reappearance of her long lost husband, who really wasn't such a bad fellow and had besides saved Mr. Grant's life earlier in the picture (Claude Rains tries hard with this part, but it's hopeless...
...whole adult life. Fifteen times an unjust society had called him into court for homicide, assault with intent to kill, and other such vile offenses. And fifteen times the poor fellow, with his reputation nevertheless ruined, was able easily to prove that he was as innocent as a new born lamb...
...writes under the name of Jay Franklin, no writer has admitted responsibility for The New Dealers, American Messiahs or Our Lords and Masters. Most political-literary gossips ascribe authorship to John Carter and Ernest K. Lindley, author of The Roosevelt Revolution and of a campaign biography of Franklin Roosevelt. Born in Richmond, Ind., in 1899, Author Lindley was a Rhodes Scholar, worked on the New York World and Herald Tribune as political commentator, is married, has two sons, now lives in Washington. Author Carter, formerly on the staff of the New York Times Book Review, left the State Department after...
...without exploiting its absurd or sensational aspects. The Oneida Community was a serious economic and ethical experiment. Noyes, who held it together throughout his life, was a courageous and resourceful man, well-informed, sufficiently intelligent to win the respect of such later students as Havelock Ellis and Bernard Shaw. Born in Brattleboro, Vt., in 1811, son of a Vermont Congressman, he was educated at Dartmouth, Andover and New Haven, came into conflict with established religion formulating the doctrine of Perfectionism, which held that moral perfection was attainable on earth. This was in direct opposition to prevailing "miserable sinner" Christianity. Awkward...
Lowell is scheduled to vie with Dudley Hall if the Ramblers can field an all-Dudley team, a feat which they have failed to accomplish yet. The Bellboys, who have lost only to Adams, should put up a good appearance against any new-born team the Ramblers might show...