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Tanks a Million (Hal Roach; United Artists) puts a cheeky Quiz Kid (William Tracy) just where most cinemagoers would probably like to see him: in the U.S. Army. Unfortunately, the Army is in such shape that the Kid (named Dodo Doubleday) very nearly runs away with...
...Dodo was a railroad-station information clerk until the draft reaped him. His phenomenal memory makes Army Regulations nothing but a brief mnemonic exercise. An apparent intellect in the ranks so terrifies Dodo's superiors that they make him a sergeant in self-defense. From there on in, his way is paved with slapstick...
...timers would like to see bouncing Dorothy ("Dodo") Bundy become U. S. tennis queen. Daughter of beloved May Sutton, first U. S. girl to win the All-England championship at Wimbledon (1905), Dodo has a powerful forehand, like her mother's. Four years ago she was good enough to be invited to play on the international Wightman Cup team. Three years ago she won the championship of Australia. But in the national indoor final last week, Dodo Bundy was not quite good enough to beat Pauline Betz. After a tough two-hour struggle, Miss Betz won the match...
Pretty Pauline Betz, like Dodo Bundy, is a sun-kissed Californian. Daughter of a physical-education teacher, she learned her tennis in Los Angeles' public parks. Southern California's pride in the Misses Betz and Bundy was mixed with chagrin. For both of them had deserted California, enrolled as students at Florida's Rollins College...
Onward & Upward. Last July's Democratic platform made no mention of that fiscal dodo, that old museum piece: a balanced budget. Franklin Roosevelt held to precedent-he didn't mention it, either. In its place he substituted a picture of a fertile, high tableland of national income, its rare air oxygenated by Federally subsidized public works, after defense spending ends. He termed the U. S. tax burden "moderate" compared to other countries -somewhat as a doctor might advise a patient suffering from pneumonia in one lung that other people had double pneumonia...