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Oldest of Ogontz prizes is the "Whisk-Broom Neatness" award. To girls whose rooms are spick-&-span go silver brooms engraved: "Order is Heaven's first law." This year's 16 whisk-broom winners were applauded by many a broom-winner mother and grandma (80% of the students are related to graduates) in the audience...
Near Ottawa, Ill., William Jackson, 14, thrilled by a radio crime story, put a charge of buckshot into his grandma, smashed her head with the shotgun...
Less picturesque than such better known family memoirs as Life With Father, Grandma Called It Carnal, Mencken's Happy Days, Author Flexner's story of her girlhood is nevertheless charming Americana. Quaker-plain in the telling, it is noteworthy among oldsters' memoirs for one fact in particular: despite Author Flexner's pleasant memories, she evokes the unmistakable stresses and veiled repressions that lay under the surface...
...Fibber is always Fibber, but Molly plays many recurrent script characters-Grandma, frustrated Mrs. Wearybottom, Teeny, a neighbor's child famed for throwing Fibber for a minor loss every time she pops...
...this has been transformed by the magic eye of the camera and the Hollywood touch. As a film, The Primrose Path has become a problem picture with false notes from Steinbeck. Grandma (Queenie Vassar) still likes it carnal, is still a coy and bawdy frump, still gets...