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Confinement Case. In Honolulu, police added it all up, found that since 1923 :heir star prisoner had paid $2,089.50 in fines, spent 7,736 days in jail, been arrested 222 times for drunkenness...
Friar's Secret. Before they had gone far, Coronado's men began to distrust everything Fray Marcos had told them. Instead of the one "small hill" that he had reported between them and Cibola, they found almost impassable mountains. Machetes had to be used to hack a way along roads he had called "good." But Marcos remained cheerful. What seemed like outrageous hardship to the tenderfoot caballeros was easy going for the hardy friar, veteran of long treks through Peru and Central America. Besides, he had his secret. The royal road to riches he had talked about back...
...money) and severing connections. He supported himself by teaching English in provincial schools (and later by lecturing on English literature at the Imperial University in Tokyo), married a Japanese girl and became a citizen. Besides his wife and their four children, he supported his wife's entire family, found himself so busy he had little time to complain about life anymore. He taught all day, wrote most of the night. His subject for his last 14 years: Japan...
...Hara soon found a way out. He heard that Boston's Packers' Laboratory, a research company, had developed frankfurters made from tuna, and he made a deal to market them. He is now producing 1,000,000 franks a day and has sold his entire output for the present to a chain of grocery stores. The franks come only in cans as Davis has not yet worked out a way to preserve their flavor in the bulk. The price...
This joke, which was originally made in the French Chamber of Deputies decades ago and which eventually found its way into the anecdote section of the "Readers Digest," is typical of those in the movie. Almost all of the laughs arrive by way of deep left field and are put across with the heavy hand of amateur gag men. This is unfortunate because four of the participants are capable of real humor. Besides the traditional Hepburn-Tracy team, the movie present Judy Holliday of "Born Yesterday" fame and Tom Ewell, who played Ensign Pulver in "Mr. Roberts...