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...cycle was begun with the Revolution. Hollis, on the request of General Washington, became a barracks for the hard-pressed regulars of the siege of Boston. The thirty-odd rooms were filled to the very rafters with men in coonskin who drilled in the Yard and attended sermons on spots that corresponded to the Law School and Sever. Hollis became a symbol of Harvard's contribution to the effort of the new nation. When the men left, they left a sign, which has become a plate, recording the service rendered by Thomas Hollis' gift...
...Joan Blondell, recently publicized as Movieland's most glamorous mother, is called upon to sexify the plot's other-worldly meanderings is a question, especially when Carol Landis is present in a very solid state. Rochester, apparently benefiting from his expedition to Cambridge last May, appears in a coonskin coat to provide one of the picture's higher points...
...votes cast in Chicago that day, but Republicans, who cast 274,317 votes, nonetheless took hope for the election April 4. Reason: they had buried their worst local liability, clownish three-time Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, who in an attempted comeback at 70, complete with sombrero, coonskin coat, open Cadillac but with no new tricks, polled only 62,000 votes. The rest of the Republican vote went to establish a fresher, more attractive party face, that of Lawyer Dwight Herbert ("Pete") Green...
...cost equal to the price of "19 bales of eight-cent cotton." An honest, spotty book. Travelers' Rest traces the violent history of an old Southern family through their fights with nature, the neighbors, and each other, shows old pioneers with their buckskins off and their coonskin caps hanging from the wrong hatracks, wenching, gambling, stealing, murdering. What bothered old settlers was that Author Robertson attributed these activities to prominent people readily identified as his ancestors-Indian scouts, Senators, wealthy planters. Civil War heroes. When neighbors complained, "You've really slung mud over us all," when a regent...
Joel McCrea is well cast as the adventure-loving and efficient agent of Wells-Fargo who succeeds in following the westward-moving American frontier and in linking it with the east through a network of outpost stations. Bob Burns, in a surprisingly becoming coonskin cap, fits well into the pioneer times, and Frances Dee is charming as Mr. McCrea's southern wife...