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Died. William M4 ("Little Bill") Johnston, 51, ping-pong-sized (120-lb.) tennis player whose 1915 victory over Maurice McLoughlin and gallant losing battles with Big Bill Tilden in the '20s made court history; of a heart attack; in San Francisco. A deadly hitter, with a Western-grip forehand famed around the world, Little Bill was twice national singles champion, teamed with Tilden to win the Davis Cup seven times running...
...chivalry is dead, we realize. When, instead of coming to a gallant defense of Harvard's women students, the Harvard Crimson last Tuesday not only turned its back but slung a good right, we were not surprised. However, we are amazed at Billy Rose for the mistake he made. We cannot understand why he did not say "handsome men do not go to college." Not only Radcliffe, 800 strong, but all eastern women's colleges, would support him in that statement. We've come to the conclusion that brawn, beauty and brains is a difficult combination; in fact, the phenomenon...
Last week, as his "Stories for Children" reached 142,000 sales, Peary was busy cutting a second set, The Brave Little Tailor (based on Grimms' Gallant Tailor who killed "seven at one blow") and Cinderella...
Though Miss Fontaine does studiously unstudied things with her legs, makes her voice gallant and common, performs in fact with a good deal of care and skill, her emphasis on words like sorta is that of a Vassarite. She simply isn't that sorta girl. Newcomer Mark Stevens plays with likable, plain dignity. The attention to veterans and their employment problems is by no means sugarcoated; and when the city itself, or the crummier aspects of its life, dominate the screen, the picture has vigor, beauty and authenticity...
...funny little fable of Good & Evil when he banishes the ducks he loves and sublimates the duck-killing turtles he abominates into a best-selling soup. "Turtle soup," chortles the adman, captioning a pallid portrait of a lady in crinolines, "saved the sweethearts and mothers of a proud and gallant race." Another neighbor, variously known as Blackburn, Malatesta and Swarzkopf, turns out to be the Devil, and delivers some of Author Wilson's most envenomed and heartfelt opinions (notably on Stalinism) in a monologue written entirely in French...