Word: guys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...film. Trying to get away from the slums, Jackie gets involved with gangsters, and when he finds little honor among thieves, joins the Navy. Meanwhile, a dark-eyed benefactress (Kathleen Burke) pretties up one of the tenements, brightens the lives of the boy's down-at-heels father (Guy Usher), his toneless, defeated mother (Marjorie Main) and the little girl in the next flat (Maureen O'Connor), who sings pathetic songs in the voice of a younger, fresher Helen Morgan. Actress Main won wide acclaim for her portrayal of "Babyface" Martin's mother in the stage...
University fellowships to: Harold W. Davey 2G, of Syracuse, New York; Guy H. Dodge 4G, of East Cleveland, Ohio; Henry F. May, Jr. 1G, of Berkeley, Californio; Frederic C. Murphy 2G, of Berlin, New Hampshire; and David McC. Wright 1G, of Savannah, Georgia...
...Most of them just couldn't believe it," said Bull. "They just stood there." Asked if the pioneers were big boys, the doughty chief said, "Naw, the guy that jumped on me couldn't have weighed over 50 pounds...
TIME'S timely description of the Sky Tiger by Bell out of Buffalo goes haywire in its second paragraph (TiME, Nov. 15, Transport). The printer's the fall guy (we hope) when he says "two .50 calibre (1½ in.) guns." Calibre is the diameter of the bore between the lands. A ".50 calibre gun" is a ½ in. gun. Incidentally the service says "calibre...
...TIME'S printer, no fall guy, a mild rebuke for manhandling correct copy...