Word: losers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Diddle Diddle (United Artists). Cinemaddicts who may have gambled away $50,000 at cards will learn from this rampageous farce that the way to make good their losses is to fix a roulette wheel and break the bank for $228,000. Luckless loser in Hi Diddle Diddle is birdbrained Mrs. Prescott (Billie Burke) who claims she has disposed of the family fortune just as her daughter Janie (Martha Scott) is about to marry a sailor, Sonny Phyffe (Dennis O'Keefe). Father Phyffe (Adolphe Menjou) is the raffish Samaritan deputed to recoup Mrs. Prescott's family fortune by breaking...
...sidelights on the game include: loser-pay beer fest was sort of a farewell party for most of the Supply School team, who are being detached today; our own sweet Lupy is reported to have lost heavily on the game, and Lt. Com. Moore and Lt. Jeffrey of the Supply School were the enemy's backers! And, to tell the whole truth, there were 6 runs, 3 hits, and 6 errors for our side, 14 runs, 13 hits and 1 error for there guys. (Box score through the courtesy of their score keeper...
Whaddyamean, "loser"? Bless your young reviewer's heart, the Lanny Budd series of novels is doing fine. They have won the praise of George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Lion Feuchtwanger, Emil Ludwig and Thomas Mann, to mention only a few foreigners who have been moved to write letters. Since money talks, in the TIME office as elsewhere, I will mention that the first three volumes have done very well for their author, and that Wide Is the Gate is listed as number five best-seller in the last week's New York Times...
...Loser? No, no; far too much a gainer. The Government takes one-fourth of my royalties and it should take three-fourths. Pass that on to the congressmen. Up with the income tax and down with the dictators...
...League victory, the Crimson mermen traveled to Princeton Saturday only to be dunked by a hot Tiger team, 47 to 28. Captain Johnny Eusden and George Christman did their best to hold up the loser's end, each taking one first and one second place...