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...York is supposed to rank. But other jobs, such as Vice President, Senator or Cabinet member, bring greater kudos. He would be a dull New York mayor indeed who did not tour the U. S. to give voters outside of New York a chance to look him over. No dullard is the incumbent, stumpy, staccato, hard-working New Deal Republican Fiorello ("Little Flower") Henry LaGuardia. He is also a good friend of Franklin Roosevelt who has announced that there is a place for Liberal Republicans in his future plans for the nation. Last week Mayor LaGuardia was in the midst...
...play show's the strange, tragic comradeship of Lennie, a huge, fetish-bound dullard whose innocent pleasure was to pet small, furry things, whose vice was his crazy strength that inevitably killed the things he loved to touch; and George, a wiry, roadwise nomad whose chief job in life was looking after Lennie. The hopeless fairy tale that George (Wallace Ford) tells Lennie (Broderick Crawford) over and over about the little house on the little piece o' land, with an alfalfa patch and rabbits for Lennie to pet, where one day they will live "off the fatta...
...wary metropolitan editors actually do treat such affairs- labeling it publicity and publishing it for its amusement value. Thereafter the story, scanning Wanda's eventual appearance in a show, her disillusioned return to Wendensville, follows established lines of Cinderella fables but manages to keep out of the dullard class. Designed for neighborhood houses rather than Academy Awards, When Love Is Young is a neatly streamlined little double-biller...
Eight other schools change deans this autumn. At Yale, intramural policies forced out Dr. Milton Charles Winternitz, 50, brought in Dr. Stanhope Bayne-Jones, 47. Wisconsin's new dean, Dr. William Shainline ("Dr. Billy") Middleton, 45, sharpens students' wits by passing a brown derby from dullard to dullard throughout the term, finally presents it to his class as a memorial to their intelligence...
...answer 55, the ordinary high school student 44, the ordinary junior high student 36. Second thing the authors noted was the wide range of scores. Surprising were the two students, one in college and one in high school, who correctly answered 100 questions each. Appalling were the high school dullard who could answer but three, the collegian who could answer...