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Ambassador to the U.S. Bantamweight, bespectacled, intensely earnest Paul Hanna is himself wholly optimistic about the possibility of solving social problems, and is one of the most rapidly moving parts of the Stanford School of Education machine run by Dean Grayson Neikirk Kefauver (TIME, Oct. 18). Born in Sioux City in 1902, Hanna took his doctor's degree at Columbia after graduating from St. Paul's little Hamline University. For several years he taught at Columbia's Teachers College, archseminary of "progressivism...
Stanford's lean, earnest Dean of Education Grayson Neikirk Kefauver was already established at Washington with 1) indefinite leave of absence from the university, 2) the backing of the rich Columbia Foundation of San Francisco, 3) the advice of No. 1 Stanfordian Herbert Hoover, and 4) the conviction that big things can be done in international education. Dean Kefauver is the quarterback of a hard-driving Stanford educational backfield (Paul Hanna, Isaac James Quillen, Paul Leonard) whose energy is well known in professional pedagogical circles and seems bound to register soon on a much wider audience...
...that show and its bull's-eye title back in 1935, but has taken its own aim from there on. The MGMarksmen ring no resounding bell, but they do bag 1) an average musical wartime romance (Private Gene Kelly v. Colonel's-Daughter Kathryn Grayson), 2) a brisk, hefty variety show featuring a clutch of M.G.M. stars and three bands (Kay Kyser, Bob Crosby, Benny Carter), 3) Pianist José Iturbi in his screen debut...
...product of the cinemilitary career of talented Gene Kelly, who before the Army gets him is a temperamental trapeze star. Private Kelly's yearning to get back in the air (in a plane) and an approaching court-martial for breach of discipline cause him to toy with Kathryn Grayson's affections in hopes that her father, his Colonel (John Boles), will transfer him to the Air Forces. The Colonel wants a less insubordinate son-in-law. Aware that trapeze work involves a certain amount of disciplined cooperation, he asks the young artist's adoptive family, The Flying...
Married. Playwright Clifford Odets (Waiting for Lefty, Golden Boy), 36; and Actress Betty Grayson, 24; two years after his divorce from Cinemactress Luise Rainer; in Manhattan...