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Perroy is here from the Sorbonne to teach mediaeval French history. Otherwise the dapper little man, habitually dressed in dark double-breasted suits, buries himself behind the stacks in his fourth floor Widener office or chats with his Leverett House mates...
...coming editor in E. W. Scripps's newspaper chain, dapper young Roy Wilson Howard once got some advice from his boss: "This is a young man's game. By the time you're 40, if you have any ability, you'd better resign and get into something else." By the time his 40th birthday was approaching, Howard had built up the United Press, was business manager of all Scripps papers. But for ambitious Roy Howard, that was still not enough. Marching into E. W.'s office, he said: "I'm following your advice...
More successful than the rather floridly filmed drama and melodrama of these three is the comedy of two other episodes. The Cop and the Anthem wisely casts Charles Laughton as a dapper old bum who unsuccessfully tries to get himself locked up in a warm jail for the winter. A burlesqued version of The Ransom of Red Chief presents Fred Allen and Oscar Levant as dour confidence men who, after making the mistake of kidnaping a little monster of a hillbilly boy, finally pay his parents a reward for taking him off their hands. Sample dialogue (strictly not O. Henry...
Wages. The Bevanly host and its Communist outriders condemned the Tory government's efforts to cut spending and hold the line on wages, as a threat to Socialism. But dapper Lincoln Evans, leader of iron and steelworkers, while promising that moderate wage claims will get T.U.C. backing, spoke unpalatable truths: "The world doesn't . . . owe us a living. If we price ourselves out of world markets, we will automatically produce unemployment...
...Must Create Europe. Dapper Jean Monnet, 63, a rare hardheaded optimist in a pessimistic Europe, intends all this. "We are not dealing merely with the pooling of coal and steel," he observed last week. "We are creating a new political reality." No man is better qualified to do the job of creating, for the "Little Howitzer," as his friends call him, has the driving power of an armor-piercing shell. When he gets hold of an idea, he never lets go. "If he were put under an anesthetic," said a friend last week, "he would still keep repeating...