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Taken from a story by Irvin Cobb which had been designed as a vehicle for Will Rogers, sold by M. G. M. to Paramount after Rogers' death, Our Leading Citizen was reshaped by Producer George Arthur not only as a vehicle for bazooka-playing Bob Burns but as a Hollywood version of Broadway's The American Way. Despite the skepticism of Hollywood leftists, cutters left intact most of its supposedly inflammatory scenes, including a pitched battle between strikers and strikebreakers bloodier than any yet seen in the newsreels, a citizens' meeting where a cynical employer (Gene Lockhart...
...Humorist Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, 63, lying ill of an abused stomach in a San Francisco hospital, sat up in bed ("like a bullfrog in a pan of milk," said one reporter), and told the press: 1) "I can't say that the X-ray pictures flatter me. One of them looked like a plaster cast of Madam Perkins. I am having them retouched." 2) "Now I have to quit eating anything fit to eat, smoke nothing, drink nothing, and go to bed at 7 p. m. This is calculated to make me live at least five years longer...
...four appointments are Clifford Morgan, of the University of Rochester, N.V., Instructor in Psychology and Tutor; Irvin L. Child, of New Haven, Conn., Instructor in Psychology and Tutor; Armand B. DuBois, of New York City, Era Riplay Thayer Teaching Fellow, Law School; and John O. Rhome, Jr. 3L of West Allenhurst, N. J., Assistant to the Faculty of Law in Charge of the Ames Competition...
Harvard spares -- Eaton, Claflin, DeRahm, Carstein, Cutler, Perkins, Willets, Irvin, Coleman...
...Armco, the company is in effect developing a new outlet for its products. Armco is thus following the lead of big U. S. Steel Corp., which since last September has been stamping out prefabricated steel parts for a similar housing development at Clairtown, Pa. near its vast new Irvin Works...