Word: manhoods
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...should come, us we feel it will, may those men face their flag who talk so valiantly now of peace . . . Today is the chance for you. No self-interest, no shuffling of the demands of conscience should shake you. Be true to your manhood, to your education, to your youth. The time is now. In three months it may be too late." (February...
Tycoon (RKO Radio) pictures the U.S. ideal of manhood as a construction engineer (John Wayne) who, like the steam shovel he strongly resembles, works all right when he is building things. But he looks absurd trying to speak English or kiss a girl. The U.S. ideal of villainy is represented in this movie as a Latin American rail magnate (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) who dresses for dinner, manages a compound sentence without stuttering, and tries to keep his lovely daughter (Laraine Day) from getting hitched to a steam shovel...
...last year, H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor was reported as saying that he might like to write a book. That was all the editors of LIFE needed to hear. They signed up the Duke for a series of three autobiographical articles on his youth and young manhood. The price was the author's (and LIFE'S) secret...
...them. But the plot--ah, the plot--it keeps gooing in. Marsha Hunt maudles the part of the mother who plans a concert pianist's career for her son, Tony. Miraculous point of the picture is the maintenance of Miss Hunt's girlish appearance throughout Tony's growth to manhood. Only when dewy-eyed Miss Hunt hears Tony break from Bach into jazz does a great gob of cornstarch fall on her hair and remain from that day forward...
...playing on the line for the University of Pennsylvania, and wearing handles on his hip pads so that his teammates could toss him and the ball over the scrimmage line for a first down, President Theodore Roosevelt stepped in to prohibit this maneuver as a menace to the young manhood of the nation. Since this palcolithic period of football, Coach Harlow has seen and brought about constant progress in the game. The forward pass without the added weight of a player was the greatest historical source of speed. Wit rather than weight has steadily become the emphasis. But since Harlow...