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...could want-prominent family, imminent fame, eminent income. Two young women (Linda Christian and Jane Powell) want not only him, but his attributes, too. Linda is a nice, safe society type, but Jane (the Athena of the title) is something else again. She lives with grandma (Evelyn Varden) and grandpa (Louis Calhern) on a Southern California hilltop. Grandma, a buxom old beldam, wears a flowing white burnoose. Grandpa is a gay old (78) caloric crank...
...Professor Merk combines excellent delivery with an organizational knack to tell how great-grandpa began it all years ago. Making interesting use of historical society journals, History 162 gallops through the Westward movement in Harvard...
...expected from a member of one of the oldest families in the British theater, flounces through her part with the sad little flourish of a hat-check girl in a customer's mink. And Ida can flounce with a verve that would have delighted Grandpa Lupino, known as "Old George," who held the 19th century record for successive toe spins...
...been dreamily anticipating palship with a four-year-old grandson and his sons-in-law. When little Peter arrives, he is asked to give grandpa a big hug. "I don't want to," Peter cries. "But Peter, darling," his unreflecting mother demands, "don't you like Bompa?" "No," cries Peter. Peter's father is politer, but conversation with him is exhausted "in 40 seconds flat with ten days...
...While the cameras clicked, young Anne Eisenhower, 4, posed self-consciously, and brother David, 5½, showed off the set of matched, miniature golf clubs Bobby Jones had given him. "You may take a picture of a golfer if you like," brother David announced, and was promptly shushed by Grandpa (see cut). "I'm afraid," said Ike disapprovingly, "that their father is not going to let their picture be taken very often. There's getting to be a lot of mugging around here...