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...Cheating. Nearly half (46.5%) of 241 pupils in Oregon's Corvallis Junior High School recently grabbed what looked like a fine chance to cheat.* That was in line with other studies of student honesty (TIME, June 19, 1939). But this study, by Lyle Johnson of the Eastern Oregon College of Education, went ahead to look for causes. Some findings, published in the high-school teachers' monthly, Clearing House...
...taxpayer's stake in these plants will represent, in dollars, almost a third as much as the entire U.S. industrial plant before the war. Sold too cheaply, it can cheat the public and break a significant part of U.S. industry; held for too high a price, it might do even more damage by wrecking any quick reconversion to peacetime production, and perhaps lead ultimately to much government competition with business. Come peace, Jesse Jones and colleagues will have a tremendous responsibility. For business skill of the first water will be needed to liquidate the monstrous estate of the defunct...
...Radio) is a gambler (Mr. Cary Grant) who dodges the draft and helps out with war relief in the shameless course of melting down an ice-cube heiress (Laraine Day) into giving him a gambling concession at a relief ball. Lucky's war-relief plan is simple: to cheat Manhattan's social heavy cream out of its white ties and rhinestones. But as time wears on, Gambler Grant, who is of Greek extraction, develops a tender conscience as a result of the courage of his compatriots and his love for eager Heiress Day. So he heroically double-crosses...
...Italian drama and opera, il furbo [applied to Mussolini-TIME, June 21] ... is a not-too-sinister trickster and cheat whose schemes, for a time, prosper greatly. Invariably, however, he overextends himself and becomes involved in a fatal tangle. Only the intervention of providence, or some powerful protector who can make selfish use of his talents, saves him from final disaster. He emerges with his life, but shorn of all his gains...
Spud-nosed, publicity-wise W. C. Fields, charged with stealing $20,000 worth of ideas from Writer Harry Yadkoe and using them in You Can't Cheat an Honest Man, appeared in court with a keg-shaped thermos from which he refueled from time to time...