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...could hardly be conventional good looks. Brando has a nose that drips down his face, according to a make-up man, "like melted ice cream" (it caused him to flunk his first screen test ten years ago). But then again, as one fan tried to explain, he does have a kind of "lyric lunkishness-he looks like a Lord Byron from Brooklyn." Is sex appeal his secret? No doubt about it, said one producer: "He's a walking hormone factory." An exhibitor, musing about his own business, said: "He's everybody between 10 and 20 that comes into...
...when Dr. Gaetano Martino was appointed Italy's new Foreign Minister. As Minister of Education, Dr. Martino had cracked down on the comfortable Italian habit of turning out thousands of ignorant youngsters with college degrees and a smattering of Latin while training too few mechanics and skilled workers. "Flunk without pity lazy or stupid students," he ordered examiners. As a result, June exams became known as "the slaughter of the innocents...
...classified as illiterates ? . . . Ever since I can remember it has been said that anyone with money and a little pull could go to S.U.I, and get a degree, but you had to have brains to get one from Iowa State College. When I was attending I.S.C., the saying went: "Flunk out at Iowa State and be on the honor roll at Iowa...
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...only hope that too many people don't flunk home economics at Eastern Illinois State...