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...were slogans and sign boards, witticisms touching on recent and long dead issues. 1919 wanted to know "Who Said Widow Nolan's Is A Racket". 1929 bewailed the fact that "In '29 Our Stock Was High, In '39 Our Hock Is Higher," while 1936 punned, "Undergraduates Learn To Swallow Goldfish, Graduates Forced To Swallow Nude...
...commencement season opened, college presidents, who differ from other manufacturers in shipping their goods only once a year, began to show their 1939 product. They expected to turn out about 155,000 graduates (a few more than last year), only slightly damaged by war scares and goldfish gulping. But observers who wanted to evaluate contemporary U. S. higher education turned their eyes not on these untried graduates but on the college presidents themselves (for a representative group, see adjacent columns...
...just a simple goldfish...
...Just a goldfish in a fish bowl...
United Artists Corp., founded 20 years ago to distribute pictures for independent producers, is today a relatively small pond full of big fish. Biggest fish is Samuel Goldwyn (né Goldfish), who has owned U. A.'s studios since 1935 and last week renamed them the Samuel Goldwyn Studio. Producer Goldwyn proposes to make Music School, with Violinist Jascha Heifetz, and The Real Glory, with Gary Cooper. Other U. A. producers and their promises: Charles Chaplin, The Dictators; David Selznick, Rebecca, directed by Alfred Hitchcock; Alexander Korda, five Technicolors, including two with his East Indian Mickey Rooney, Sabu; Walter...