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...Louis Star (now the Star-Times) as a copyreader. "One day they fired the sports department," recalls Red, and he got his chance. His first assignment was night football practice at Washington University. Red wrote the story from the viewpoint of a glowworm outshone by the floodlights. It was "cute," but it made a hit with readers, and Smith was a sportwriter for good. In 1936, he moved to the Philadelphia Record and a bylined column, and in 1945 to the Herald Tribune. Red's favorite sports : baseball, football, boxing, horse racing. Says Smith: "I like the sports that...
...enough, by a small piece of flannel headgear ("The Red Menace"), and been swept into the rhetorical realms of women's rights, regimentation, Freedom of the Individual, Harvard's parity or superiority to Midwestern universities, etc. We have suddenly become a Burning Issue. We are reminded: (1) Beanies are cute (2) Beanies are ugly (3) We are indulging a degrading herd instinct (4) We are following the dictates of Free Enterprise and by-golly-have-a-right-to (5) Women have no business at Harvard at all (the Reactionaries) (6) Women must be supported in their battle against a totalitarian...
...literary rivals as Erie Stanley Gardner, John Dickson Carr, Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler: she lures them into accepting dope-soaked birdseed held out to them by her trained canary, Galli-Curci. The soprano gets in trouble when one of her less celebrated victims unexpectedly dies. Despite its over-cute plot and slapdash style, the tale could count on plenty of readers, since its author was a Met soprano herself, strapping Wagnerian Star Helen Traubel...
...plot, however, is trite; it would be almost impossible to have original sequences in such a shopworn framework. You know perfectly well what will happen when the family buys a dog that Gilbreth disapproves of, and what the cute little remarks are going to be when mother has her twelfth baby. You can easily sense each time the "cheaper by the dozen" gag is coming up. Only Gilbreth's time studies redeem the movie from being completely hackneyed, and they aren't enough to make it really amusing. "Cheaper by the Dozen" is just a quantitative variation on the "Life...
...often, Debby comes through as a cute curiosity instead of a character. She wonders what people do with the breath they save, worries in the morning whether she is the same Debby as the night before, frequently touches herself to be sure that her navel is still in front of her, and is always ready for a good fast game of marbles with the Merrill kids...