Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jerome D. Rapaport '49 is the leader of these nightly squadrons and the executive secretary of the larger Students with Hynes for Better Government group which includes all the activities of the young people who back Hynes. Rapaport was a Dunster House man in his undergraduate days hero, but made his name at the law school by helping to organize the Law School Forum...
...Rapaport got together with William D. Weeks '49, a former Student Council president, who had a family interest in city and state politics, to form the Boston Students Civic Association. That name remained a part of the organization only until the group decided that Hynes was to be the man they would back for mayor. Then it became the Students with Hynes for Better Government a name which committed the group definitely for Hynes and left the Civic Association name for future...
City Like a Man...
Last but not least among the group's activities have been the radio presentations. On October 13, a small cast under Rapaport's leadership put on a skit called "A City is Like a Man." The point of the show was that the city is like a human being, that had to have a certain amount of integrity to maintain its place with the other cities. Hynes has rated this performance as one of the most effective efforts in his campaign. The group hopes to go on the air again before the election...
...Movie Crazy," an early talkie, brings back one of the first and finest silent comedians, in one of his last and best productions. Harold Lloyd, the man who invented horn-rimmed glasses, lurched and fumbled his way to an improbable success in film milestones like "The Freshman," against competition from such adept funnymen as Buster Keaton and Chaplin himself. "Movie Crazy" shows what happened when sound hit the screen, and the champions of the gestured word had to adjust. Most of the time, they didn't bother...