Word: brawn
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...super-talent scout (Rosalind Russell) is used to earning commissions as handsome as she is. But when the film begins she is having trouble locating a bunch of brawn adequate to .portraying The Whirlwind, hero of a best-selling romance which is rocketing screenward. In time's nick, she discovers that the book's author, a shy professor (Willard Parker), has just the physical architecture for the role. So she blandishes him into taking it, makes casual use of his infatuation with her to warm him up for the picture's love scenes...
Janitor's office in all Houses are desperately understaffed, making the moving problem one of local college ingenuity rather than general grammer school brawn. it require two to four men to move a good-sized, well-stocked sophomore within an hour, and when five or six men want to move in one day, it over-works today's janitor staff...
...existence, at present, is ruddy, bulky, soft-spoken Editor Field's main concern. After extraordinary vicissitudes Field has apparently assembled a staff that will ultimately develop its own editorial brawn. Editor Field is increasingly active as head of this staff...
...practice (prewar average: 50 hours); age levels have dropped sharply (Princeton, which had averaged a 21-year-old squad, now averages 17 to 18); sudden shifts and mysterious whiskings-away of Naval trainees (said Dartmouth's Coach Earl Brown: "We are supposed to have inherited a wealth of brawn and brain . . . but I can tell you a lot of those aces supposedly here are not on the scene...
...including 100 Princeton University students, scores of husky lads from the athletic leagues sponsored by New Jersey police departments, three sailors on shore leave. Perhaps Major Lepper had found the magic formula for recruiting workers. Said the New York Sun: "There's something about a request for male brawn that can't be swept aside. It's like trying to walk by those muscle-testing machines at the fair...