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Mostly one long flashback, the picture begins with Cagney bawling out a noisy party in the next yard, whereupon a turtlenecked Yale man of the Bum McClung era, with a Y as wide as his chest, rears above the garden wall and shouts: "I'd like to give him a taste of the good old flying wedge!" Whereupon a street band blares into The Band Played On, which plumps Cagney into such a mood of reminiscence that it is a full hour until he returns to test, and best, the good old flying wedge...
...Madden might still have been a stumblebum had he not won 200 "clams" shooting craps one night in a waterfront dive. Determined "to quit being a uncouth bum," he bought a case of whiskey and a second-hand cash register, opened a speakeasy in Manhattan's famed Fifties. One night, after some of his customers had got into a skull-cracking brawl that brought the cops swarming in. Barkeep Madden, plenty irate, took his pencil from behind his ear. poured out a piece of his mind, pasted it on the mirror behind his bar: "Just for your information...
With two first line men on probation and a third out with a bum shoulder, it looks as though the grapplers may have a tough time beating the Techmen in the season opener this afternoon...
...round out the picture, they won't even admit themselves to a cheerful or a gloomy outlook. They have three veterans back from their 41 to 28 victory in the opener last year, but the best of them. Captain Ronic Samuels may be out of the game with a bum leg. Three more men have shown promise but have never played before in a varsity game...
Roosevelt is wholly emotional and not in the least rational." Tony Galento: "Roosevelt will beat this Willkie just as bad as I'll beat Joe Louis the next time I catch up with the bum." William S. Knudsen (when asked whom he would vote for): "Go jump in the lake." Edna St. Vincent Millay (in an anti-Roosevelt "poem...