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Roddy MacDowell is a good kid who tries like blazes to act--and does get away with it--though the legion of child-actor-haters will find much to carp about; but Lassie makes the picture. The dog is just a natural trouper, that...
Shark-mouthed Publisher Frank Gan nett and carp-eyed Publisher Colonel Robert R. McCormick share two fierce emo tions : hatred of Franklin Roosevelt, a conviction that New Deal "bungling" in agriculture will cause starvation in the U.S. Last week, in Bertie McCormick's Chicago bailiwick, the two joined in an emotional spree, airing their fears in a joyous catharsis of rich gloom...
Considering that 99.99 per cent of the collectors are men and most likely in uniform now, that jazz never sold very well anyhow, and that a collector of Jazz, unlike a Lombardo-lover or Kaye-swayer, never tires of his records, it would seem downright unpatriotic to carp at the present output. Victor's latest "Smart Set" albums, however, like "Favorite Love Songs," and Songs of Imperishable Beauty," seem hardly likely to leave any of the better. Columbia reissues behind in a could of shellac. Or take the case of Half McIntyre's new band, which the gentlemen in Camden...
Married. Esther Carp, 28, niece of Soviet Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov; and Leo Seligman, 31, employe in a Bridgeport war plant; in Manhattan. In the mid-'30s her father, Sam Carp, now a Bridgeport realtor, was commissioned by Moscow to get two 75,000-ton battleships built for Russia in U.S. shipyards. He had a $100,000,000 authorization from Stalin but the deal fell through...
...Carp at Versailles during the reign of Louis XIV was said to resemble Madame de Maintenon to an extraordinary degree. The story was finally traced to Madame de Montespan...