Word: doped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to rumor, "The Magnificent Dope" was originally titled "The Magnificent Jerk." It doesn't make much difference, no matter how thin it's sliced. Henry Fonda has played a country yokel so often that Li'I' Abner is not even a good second. Lynn Bari looks appealing enough to warrant the trouble the orchestra goes to whenever she shows up. Don Ameche gives a performance of a go-getting success salesman that wouldn't even do justice to Alexander Graham Bell. You can make some money taking bets about who's the "Magnificent Dope," Ameche, Fonda, or the innocent...
...when a bank was cracked by "four wild kids, anywhere from eighteen to twenty, scared so bad the slobber is running out of their mouths, couple of them coked to the ears, their suspenders stretched double from the gats they got in their pants." He passed on the dope to the smart miss who was vote-getting for Sol's political opponents. Ben fed her tips all through the elections; got Sol run out of town...
...first time in five years. In the South, all eyes are on the Georgia Bulldogs and Frank Sinkwich, speedy bonecrusher who made 15 All-Americas last year despite a broken jaw. In the Southwest, any one of a half-dozen teams might come out on top, but preseason dope favors Texas University and Texas...
Hitherto WTEL's German-language broadcasts (even those of the Rev. Kurt E. B. Molzahn, convicted last month of espionage) have been largely nonpolitical. For real political dope, many Philadelphia German-Americans listened to Dr. Goebbels by short wave. The man who pioneered WTEL's political counter-broadcasts is Dr. Robert M. W. Kempner, exiled Prussian Minister of Justice, now at the University of Pennsylvania...
...kept him on, and so has every President since. He has broken in each new President to the White House routine, served as handyman, tutor, adviser, informal ready-reference, and casual White House historian-for the President's ears. If he wanted to he could write an inside-dope book to end all inside-dope books. Last week the President took official cognizance of 70-year-old Rudy Forster's approach to the retirement age next month by signing an executive order exempting him from the automatic retirement provision. The exemption of 73-year-old clerk Maurice Latta...