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...judge's kind of character and uncompromising integrity are beginning to seem a little archaic, just as the big house seems to be an anachronism in the heart of a town daily becoming more industrialized and ugly. What is worse, the judge's grandson, a fine lad and a Princeton man to boot, cannot sustain the oaklike traditions which he so admires in the old man. He marries the wrong girl, is not much of a lawyer, and after he has fought in World War I, his sense of values is as battered as his body...
...John Howland, spotted the five starving Japanese who had given up all hope after nearly seven months. Having taken the castaways aboard, Captain William H. Whitfield went right on chasing whales. To Manjiro, whose usual catch was bass, whaling was a mighty experience. Quick, curious and alert, the young lad picked up English rapidly, learned the whaler's tasks and pitched in with a will. Captain Whitfield, a widower, took such a fancy to him that he brought him home (Fairhaven, Mass.), changed his name to John Mung, put him in school and took him to church...
...notion that he was a benign despot, succeeded in looking like a benign father. His three daughters (Ferial, Fadia, Fawzia) are by Farida, his first wife, who in three tries bore him no male heirs. At his knee, Farouk fondly held Prince Ahmed Fuad II, 3, a winsome lad and sole product of his second queen, Narriman Sadek...
...Fernandel's honorable lad comes home from Algeria on leave and marries the girl, setting the villagers off on a grand, hatchet-burying celebration. Unfortunately and predictably, the era of goodwill is likely to last only until the next movie in the cycle sends them, with shrill Gallic cries, at each other's throats again...
...leader of Dublin's small community of 5,000 Jews. The Irish saw nothing incongruous about Alderman Briscoe's selection (which was decided by a tie-breaking draw from a black bowler). Bobby Briscoe was Dublin born and Dublin reared, had joined the I.R.A. as a mere lad, taken up arms for freedom, and worked 29 years for it with De Valera in the Dail. He had been in on some of the spectacular events, too, like the time he and the I.R.A. boys seized the Irish Free State consulate in New York back in 23 and held...