Word: globe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Zing! An arrow whizzes through the air, crashes through a light globe, and imbeds itself in the wall, vibrating smartly. Three more do the same thing, leaving a remonstrant, unidentified bather in the dark. It's not at all certain that the arrows are golden. But that opening shot is the only excuse for the name, "The Golden Arrow," of Bette Davis' latest. Or else we're too obtuse...
...unwilling newsmaker is short, stocky Dean Theodore Jesse Hoover of Stanford's School of Engineering. When the Globe (Ariz.) Record last year published an interview quoting him as saying that his brother Herbert would not run for President in 1936, Brother Theodore exploded: "A complete fabrication!" Last week Theodore Hoover made undeniable news by announcing that, having reached the age of 65, he would retire from Stan ford in June. Promptly newshawks amended: ". . . To go fishing with his brother Herbert...
Patriots Day this year finds a United States in which the most sacred traditions of our forefathers are being openly flouted in the streets. Red Russia, not content with poisoning the air of one-fourth the habitable globe, has sent her paid agents to our fair shores. Men like Commander Van Zandt, whom few deny to be in the open pay of Moscow, make defamatory remarks about the young men who are some day to fight the battles of this country. Gold Star Mothers, their poverty played upon by Stalin's ill-gotten gold, are bribed to denounce the beauteous...
...ablest. Last week, in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, the five college teams that qualified for the tournament to decide U. S. basketball entrants in next summer's Olympic Games fared poorly. Basketball representatives of two organizations as thoroughly nonacademic as Universal Pictures Corp. of Hollywood, and Globe Oil & Refining Co. of McPherson, Kans., met in the final...
...town of 5,000 and that their basketball ramblings should be paid for by the company is less mysterious than it seems. Like Universal Pictures' five, and thousands of similar groups in the U. S., they are a company promotion scheme. The idea came to the Globe Oil's sales manager in 1934, from Gene Johnson who had spent half a dozen years coaching minor college and commercial teams in the Midwest. He guaranteed a winning combination. Last week, Coach Johnson gave his recipe for their success: "We like to turn the game into a wild, helter-skelter...