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Senator Schall wrote an insolent public reply which dodged the President's point: "Your telegram to me bears out the suggestion of the constant effort to mislead and fool the public. ... If it were not for the fact that I see in your request for 'information' an attempt on your part to appear as a victim of your own bureaucracy instead of its chief organizer. I would be inclined to ignore your telegram. . . . You ask me for information concerning what you yourself have done. Are you attempting to secure facts so that you may be in a position to refute...
When he arrived in Manhattan from Great Britain to defend the title which he won at Forest Hills last year, dapper Fred Perry told newshawks his purposes and plans: "I intend to fool around in Hollywood for a while. I don't know whether I'm going to be an actor or not. Universal approached me with an offer to make a picture but I don't think I could do it and remain an amateur...
...takes a roadhouse entertainer outside. It was a bad choice; the girl belonged to Gibbsville's No. 1 underworldling. Day after Christmas Julian is still in a black mood when friends rake him over the coals. That night, getting drunk alone in his house, he realizes what a fool he has made of himself in three days. He goes out to the garage, shuts the door, starts the motor. But the story does...
...John Dillinger of the newspictures. His sandy hair had been dyed black. He had grown a mustache. His eyebrows were plucked, his pug nose straightened, his face "lifted." But these disguises did not fool Investigator Purvis. Thanks to a woman's tip, Investigator Purvis and 15 Federal agents were ready for Desperado Dillinger when he strode jauntily out of the Biograph Theatre two hours later. At the sight of men closing in on him from nowhere Dillinger whirled, reached for his gun, darted for an alley. A volley of lead cut him down in his tracks, one bullet through...
London Bridge is Falling is more pretentious. A romance of 15th Century London, it ranks with such historical efforts as The Fool of Venus (TIME, March 19). Author Lindsay has been more careful to avoid anachronism than unreality, though he has thought it better to tone down the broad King's English of the day. The hero, a grocer's son turned soldier, comes back to his paternal home on London Bridge after a ten-year absence, to find his betrothed wed to an old curmudgeon, to get himself hopelessly entangled with his best friend's fianc...