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Whacked Children. The angularity of mind and body was hers by inheritance. She was born 42 years ago in Hartford, Conn., the second of the six children of Katharine Houghton and Dr. Thomas Norval Hepburn, a noted urologist and surgeon. Her father, a transplanted Virginian, was so moved by Brieux's crusading play about syphilis, Damaged Goods (and by the preface written to it by Bernard Shaw), that he risked ostracism by his campaign to bring the facts about venereal disease into the open. With Harvard's Dr. Charles Eliot, he founded the American Social Hygiene Association. Kate...
Other signers of the statement were: Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann, Olin Downes, Professor Thomas Emerson, Judge Norval K. Harris, Dr. John A. Kingsbury, Professor Robert Lynd, Carey McWilliams, Professor Philip Morrison, Professor Linius Pauling, Dr. Walter Rautenstrauch, I. F. Stone, and Professor Colston E. Warne...
...filly Double Rose. Amour Drake and Val Drake, wearing the funereal black silks of Paris' most dramatic relict, the dashing young widow of Theatrical Magnate Leon Volterra, were the heavy favorites, but form players plumped for Textile Millionaire Marcel Boussac's triple entry of Djeddah, Coronation and Norval (Boussac horses had won the Prix five times...
...Norval, assigned to set the pace for his stablemates, broke clear at once and led all the way to the final turn. By then, Djeddah had already faded but Coronation charged on to win by four lengths over Double Rose, paying 4-1 francs for 1. Said one dejected infielder as the numbers went up: "Encore une pour le trust [One more for the trust]." The sentimentalists did better: Love Goddess Hayworth's filly paid a handsome...
...Norval (Eddie Bracken) is Trudy's unwanted steady, a poor stammering loon of a 4-F whose stupidity is excelled only by his utterly selfless devotion. As Trudy watches him gratefully writhing in her clutches, she begins for the first time to love him. His efforts to save her good name, fantastically inept and deeply touching, would melt much colder hearts than hers. At the picture's end Norval, through no doing of his own, is at once ridiculous, pitiful and a national hero. As he shows up in his splendid new uniform, flashbulbed, bewildered, happy, homely, still...