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...Skelton, his usual fumbling self, plays a song writer who leaves Tin Pan Alley for the life of a freshman at an exclusive girls college in order to keep up with his bride, lovely Esther Williams, who gets our vote as the neatest college instructor of the year. Villain Basil Rathbone tries desperately to break up the marriage but finds himself doing geometry and history assignments instead...
...convention had been in uninterrupted session for six and a half hours. At the outer gates, galleryites were beginning to arrive for the night session. Up to the microphone stepped Chairman Sam Jackson to pull the neatest parliamentary trick of the convention. He announced that Ballot II would be taken immediately, and that, since there was no recess, the convention was still in afternoon session and no tickets for the night meeting would be honored. Even at this late date the bosses were taking no chances on getting a Wallace gallery...
...neatest minor inventions of the war, a new signaling mirror, was announced last week by General Electric. Equipped with a sighting device that works on the same principle as a sextant, the mirror can flash a signal flush on a target as far away as ten miles...
Workmen at the Remington Arms Co. plant in Bridgeport, Conn, call the incendiary "Blue Goose" (because its nose is colored blue, to differentiate it from other types of ammunition). The bullets are made in a secret area where visitors are barred and all workers must wear a special uniform. Neatest trick yet performed with the projectile: destroying a Japanese cargo vessel. U.S. flyers did that by dropping their belly fuel tanks on the ship's deck, then raking them with blue geese. The ship burned briskly...
Most thoroughly armed with witticisms were a sextet of "WAVES," introduced in the elaborate scene on the 11:50 back to Wellesley, perhaps the neatest piece of caricature in the two acts. Other scenes did take offs on the staff of "The New Yorker," Wellesley's knitting workroom and conditioning program, Pine Manor, and the date-lacking Junior prom. Sure, they mentioned Harvard...