Word: dubbings
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Atop Winnipeg's limestone Legislative Building stands a statue of a naked boy with a sheaf of wheat under one arm. Manitobans dub him the "Spirit of Enterprise' see something symbolic in the fact that he faces north. Last week every Manitoban looked northward...
...Ruddy, cigar-chewing Frank Knox seldom gets time for golf, at which he is a better-than-average dub. His substitute: harder work in his 15-minute morning round of setting-up exercises. His routine as he approaches 70: arm thrashings, a four-minute lope around suite...
Intrigued by such contrapuntal variations on a simple theme, many a dub of long standing has plucked up interest. Checker sales are ballooning. And the crusty, generally introverted old men of checkers who have long pored over the game that few understood, now have company and competition in the new recruits who talk familiarly of Millard Hopper and bumptious Willie Ryan...
...known throughout Latin America as Cantinflas, Mexico's Charlie Chaplin. He is seen by the U.S. public for the first time* in a two-reeler called The Boxer, which seems much less funny than the worst picture Chaplin ever made. But even in a foreign language and a dub picture, Cantinflas is no ordinary clown. A voluble, ingenuous ragamuffin who always wears the same hardly decent costume (woolen undershirt and baggy pants hitched around his lower hips with a rope), he cuts a brash but appealing figure, shows a subtle taste in slapstick...
...Roman Catholic priest-balding, bushy-browed Monsignor John A. Ryan of Washington. Now 73 years old but vigorous as he was 20 years ago, Monsignor Ryan has long been U.S. Catholicism's most potent social reformer. His devotion to the Roosevelt administration led Father Charles E. Coughlin to dub him "the Rt. Rev. New Dealer." Six years ago his militant support of the President's Supreme Court packing scheme caused the weekly of the Baltimore archdiocese to say he had "a Fascist, dictatorial mind...