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...Transcript. His political experience was acquired as newshawk and editorial writer for the New York Herald Tribune where he thumped long and loud against Philippine Independence. His first political victory was won four years ago when he was elected to the Massachusetts legislature, his great name and pleasant boyish manner netting him a whacking big vote which was repeated two years later...
...sitting on Adolf Hitler's right, nor Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick, who was on his left, moved a muscle to prevent what, for all they knew, might have been an attack on the Realmleader. As apple-cheeked S. S. Guards, with horror on their boyish Nazi faces, came bounding forward, the California Kisser blithely disengaged herself, was permitted to run to her husband who had shot the whole sequence with his home cinema camera. "Hitler," enthused Mrs. de Vries, "was ever so nice...
...Uncle David" seemed again last week the boyish Prince of Wales and not the 42-year-old King-Emperor when he went out to test the British Admiralty's new "Flea Boats." These are high-speed motorboats firing torpedoes. For months British capital ships infesting Italian waters have been bothered by such "Fleas...
Money for the monument was left by the late J. Henry Ferguson, bachelor Baltimore banker and socialite, who described Generals Jackson & Lee as "my boyish heroes," specified in his bequest: "On one of the [statue's] sides, I want it to read: They were great generals and Christian soldiers and waged war like gentlemen.' These are my own words, and I only ask the simple word under them, 'Ferguson.'" Mrs. Fraser's winning model, in accordance with the competition's rules, showed the generals as they parted before Chancellorsville, on May 2, 1863. General...
...Deeds Goes to Town" to take over the fortune of a mangled madcap uncle, and when the town learns of the twenty million dollars, the town comes to Mr. Deeds. Gary Cooper succeeds once again in delineating that gawky, boyish bashfulness that entrances even Marlene Dietrich. However shining a badge of genuineness such behavior may be outside of the movies, simplicity and naviete impart an unquestionable worth to a movie person...