Word: kids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Know affectionately as the "Cruft Quiz Kid" by his students, one of Harvard's busiest wartime professors and one of its outstanding men of science, Professor Emory L. Chaffee, head of the Cruft Laboratories, now fills a gamut of war positions that would keep three normal men busy...
...ordered to write a letter to Congressman Kearney demanding a vote against the anti-strike bill. "I had it nicely typewritten," he said, "then I put in a little note in my own handwriting explaining that for me, he could vote for the bill. After all, I got a kid out there in Africa...
...married only twice.** She wraps her romances in mystery by carefully concealing her fiancés' names, carefully dropping hints as to their nationalities, professions, wealth, renown. Rich and renowned men to whom Pola has been rumored engaged: Chicago Millionaire Harold F. McCormick, British Millionaire Lieut. Commander Glen Kid-ston, Cinema idols Rudolph Valentino, Charlie Chaplin. Most renowned man with whom Pola's name has been linked is Adolf Hitler (TIME, April 26, 1937). This most sensational of rumors about Pola hit the headlines over half of Europe, is said to have made the Führer weep...
There is nothing to indicate that the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts is contemplating the quiz program method of teaching disbursing. But if such a step is ever considered the School now has a least the nucleus of an SOA "Quiz-Kid" gang. In one particular Junior class-and probably to a lesser extent in the other four-there is a group of officer who can ask the most ingenious questions. It sometimes looks as though they know the answers and are just trying in find out if the instructor does or not. He generally refuses to be baited...
Pretty, comical Lucille Ball, with her high pile of fiery hair, plays the movie queen who accepts an invitation to the Winsocki prom as a sound publicity stunt. This is immensely embarrassing to the kid (Tommy Dix), who never expected his invitation to be taken seriously, and to his girl friend (Virginia Weidler), who finds herself a wallflower while the cadet corps make Lucille the belle of a brawl. Before the end of it, she has been stripped to her slip by souvenir hunters and has ricocheted among as many closets as the heroines of French bedroom farce...