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...Practically no one at any college will tell on a boy seen cheating in an examination. It is quite different if a student sees another student stealing money out of a desk drawer. There the reluctance to tell has substantially evaporated. Where did your sympathies lie in the West Point cheating exposure? My guess is it was with the boys who cheated rather than with the boys who told. In Hollywood's great contribution to culture--the gangster pictures--the audience without doubt is emotionally against the moll who squeals and is with the mob. In brief...
...When I got back to the hotel, I pulled open the bureau drawer and put my hand on the Gideon and said: 'Lord, never let me be tempted to go on another duck hunt.' Then I called my wife to tell her I was safe...
Unsafe Deposit. In Muncie, Ind., Supermarket Owner Lester Muster, trying to outwit burglars, kept his money in a wastebasket instead of a drawer, until an employee chucked $10,080 in cash and checks into a fire while cleaning...
Closed Lips. Hopkins, who is 59 and looks scarcely 49, is little known because he guards his own affairs almost as closely as the AEC guards his submarines. California-born, lawyer-trained (Harvard Law '21), he learned about corporations in the top-drawer Wall Street law firm now called Cravath, Swaine & Moore. He learned about finance as assistant to Secretaries of the Treasury Ogden L. Mills and William H. Woodin. In 1933 he came to New York to help run an investment trust (Mayflower Associates Inc.), in 1937 became a director of Connecticut's famed old Electric Boat...
...movie fans outside Hollywood's RKO Pantages Theater, the show looked familiar: klieg lights crisscrossing the wet night sky and Cadillacs disgorging jeweled and ermined cargoes. But inside the palace, surrounded by TV cameras, zoomar lenses, floodlights and monitoring screens, the 2,800 top-drawer movie folk were acutely conscious that times had changed...