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...Rise and Shine" makes you feel like doing just that. Simply making faces, Jack Oakie is sufficient for a full ninety minutes of bellylaughs. As a sleep-loving Boley Bolenkawicz, the Clayton College gridiron menace, Jack also sings, muddles over calculus and puffed rice, and runs the longest touchdown on record--several hundred yards in either direction against Notre Dame...
...Frederick W. Malley of Texas discovered that this wasp, a U.S. native, was a weevil parasite. In 1938, the Clayton Foundation, founded by famed Cotton-man Benjamin Clayton, put scientists to work on the wasps' use. Directed by Botanist Glenn W. Goldsmith, young Entomologist John M. Carpenter studied the insect, announced last week that it can be propagated in honey-smeared cages, released in fields to work as effectively as the unpampered outdoor variety. He is now devising equipment for mass production of the billions of wasps which cotton growers need...
...provocation: A New Deal youngster, 36-year-old Ganson Purcell, had got the White House green light to become SEC's sixth chairman in seven years. He would succeed New Dealer Edward Clayton Eicher, ex-Iowa Congressman who jumped from the SEC springboard* to Chief Justice of the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia...
Harlem's 200,000-odd Negroes had their first representative in the New York City Council this week, and the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. took another step toward becoming the popular hero of U.S. Negroes...
Well-cast as a dumb, sleepy, semi-inhibited sophomore named Bradislaus ("Boley") Bolenciewcsz, Oakie mugs Clayton College to a national championship in a wacky welter of song & dance, romance and slapstick. With the greatest of ease he polishes off Yale, 82-to-0; Notre Dame, 6-to-5; Minnesota, 27-to-0. He beats Notre Dame with a last-minute touchdown when someone capitalizes on his fear of floods by yelling, "The dam has burst!" - frightening him the length of the field...