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...newspaper editor, his masthead motto had been: "Independent in all things, neutral in none." When he became acting governor in 1943 (the governor-elect died before taking office), Wisconsin politicians learned that he hadn't changed. The self-styled "tough old codger" tackled every sacred cow and pressure group, from the American Legion to organized labor. He cracked down on lobbyists, gamblers, and battled the highway lobby...
...millionaire has ransomed his kingdom for a race horse, and ended up with a big oat bill. The difference, in Millionaire Elizabeth Arden Graham's case, is that Tom Smith spent her gold and brought home silver cups. Tom Smith is a shortish, pale and poker-faced old codger nearing 70, who is less of a chatterbox than Calvin Coolidge. His silences awed the lady. He spends a lot of time just staring at his horses through wise eyes, and when he is through, a horse knows he has been cross-examined...
...sentimental journey. First Ronnie (Roddy McDowall) and the empire builder fall out over Rochester, N.Y. The old codger insists that it is "a State somewhat northeast of the New England Colony." The boy knows better, and says so. Then his sister, Sheila (Peggy Ann Garner), gets trainsick, throws up for miles until the Paris train is stopped by the advancing Nazis. Soon Rose (Fleurette Zama) joins the party-at Ronnie's invitation. Snorts Woolley: "I do not propose to become the Mecca for every unfortunate child...
Although Paisanos Tracy, Garfield and others manage their somewhat talky roles with skill, they are snowed under by Comic Frank Morgan, playing straight as the Pirate, a filthy, bewhiskered, bedraggled old codger with five nondescript dogs and an oath to buy a gold candlestick to St. Francis, who once said to him: "Be good to dogs, you dirty man." He keeps his oath by hoarding "1,000 two-bitses," and in the process delivers as adroit and winning a performance as Hollywood has produced all season...
...with Dutch names like New Dorp, Kill van Kull, factories, and about 100 real farms. At least one of its 160,000 residents is nationally famed. He is hoary, old Poet Edwin Markham (The Man with the Hoe, Lincoln, the Man of the People), now an enfeebled, house-ridden codger...