Word: man
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this failed to disturb Pitt's standpat trustees (including the late Andrew W. Mellon, Steelman Ernest Tener Weir*, Food-man Howard Heinz, Westinghouse Chair man Andrew Wells Robertson). But last spring the trustees were disturbed indeed when Football Coach John Bain ("Jock") Sutherland quit. Apparent reason for his resignation was a decision by Chancellor Bowman to purify Pitt athletics, but insiders knew that Jock had become fed up with Dr. Bowman. As Jock walked out, students staged a boisterous strike, proclaimed : "We've had enough of this dictatorship." Alumni began to demand that "Big John" and "Little John...
...busy man these days is Major Woodburn: besides his persuasive posters, his recruiting publicity bureau on Governor's Island, off Manhattan's southern tip, turns out recruiting sales talks for radio programs. These tweak a prospect's ear with You're in the Army Now and The Stars and Stripes Forever, catch him by the nose with slogans like "Join the Air Corps and earn while you learn." One record starts with a guitar-plunked Hawaiian melody that compellingly conjures up dreams of grass skirts and whispering palms, ends with sign-on-the-dotted-line insistence...
...absorbed in the U. S. scene is Artist Sloan that he has never left its boundaries. He and his miniature wife Dolly ("the little woman who has been my right hand man") spend their winters in Manhattan, their summers in New Mexico. Liked by everyone are Artist Sloan's portrayals of city life with its socks down: lean cats scavenging in a snowy back yard, a dust storm on Fifth Avenue, scrubwomen in a library, girls on a roof drying their hair, men lined up at a bar. Less liked are the strange, bright-colored nudes, hatched and crosshatched...
...Catholic Poland, whose Primate, Augustus Cardinal Hlond, arrived at the Vatican during the week. The Pope was profoundly apprehensive of the future of eastern Poland, occupied by godless Russians. But, said a Vatican voice, "even if the Pope fasted and performed self-mortification, he would not be the man to flaunt it in public. One should keep in mind his habitual disposition to piety and mortification. . . . But beyond that, it is not permitted to go without falling into a play of the imagination that may become indiscreet...
Espionage Agent (Warner) tries to do for spy hunters what G-Men did for the FBI in 1935. A timely, slapdash nerve-racker, it has none of the sophisticated humor with which, in such superbly organized spy thrillers as The Lady Vanishes, The Man Who Knew Too Much, smart British Director-Producer Alfred Hitchcock makes improbable situations plausible. Espionage Agent is filled with as many improbabilities as spies, and it is almost as hard to avoid spotting them...