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...Washington University. At the University's Character Research Institute, Psychologist Lentz and his associates made some thoroughgoing inquiries into the views on life and morals of several hundred drinkers and teetotalers. They were all young (17 to 30), fairly well educated (at least high school), and included no chronic drunks. Among this relatively homogeneous group of men & women, Lentz found some very wide personality differences between drinkers and nondrinkers. His not entirely surprising conclusions, reported in the psychological journal, Character and Personality, include the following...
...Austin High School kids worked so energetically on their newfound music that they hired balls to threw their own dances, just so that they could play. They sold tickets with equal enthusiasm among their classmates and the chronic inhabitants of neighborhood bars...
...have patience with the chronic deserter: 70% would have him shot out of hand...
Children of Mars, a less terrifying and to that extent a less true job, nevertheless performs three important services. By concentrating on a white-collar family, the film makes clear that wartime delinquency far exceeds the chronic economic slum-sickness of peacetime. Even among children of the well-to-do the present delinquency rate is high. Presented in both films, typical solutions...
Meanwhile, Link jots it all down as research, while Teammate Fletcher Marvin (Franchot Tone) wraps it up for the air, and the U.S. is swept by the greatest family-program in history. Bonnie is swept too: one way by Marvin, a chronic wolf-another by Link, who is much too worried about what will happen when the family hears the program to notice Bonnie's new dress. In the long run come discovery, anger and pain, a slash of real pathos from Pop Moore, mollification through the drunken delights of notoriety, and an ultimate regaining of everybody...