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National Affairs (TIME, April 15, p. 20) concerning Oldster Hull-"Mr. Hull represents probably the last chance for U. S.citizens who want to vote for a man born in a log cabin...
...theory that they would stand the climate best, Canadians and rugged Scots regiments made up the initial British force. At their head was Major General Adrian Carton de Wiart, a 60-year oldster chosen not merely because he is Belgian-born and can thus speak freely to his French allies, but because he has a long record of commanding where shot & shell are thickest. A Boer and World War I veteran, he has won a V. C. and lost an eye and a hand in the King's service. The General has every reason for wanting another crack...
Tradition has always pictured Verdi as a sunny oldster dandling children on his knee. In "The Life of Giuseppe Verdi", a script-writer's florid fancy and an actor's indecisive acting are diligently at work portraying bearish youth mellowing into crochety old age. Inconclusive in its characterization, the picture meanders shapelessly through the minor crises in the composer's life, in a disjointed course that lacks both interest and conviction. A weak-kneed attempt to build up Verdi as a nationalist idol bogs down in conventional heroics. In a last desperate effort at unity, the director drags...
...connoisseurs alike were the vivid detail and panoramic scope of the mountain and forest views that Old Master Jackson had snap ped with his battered, wooden 6½-by-8½ camera in days when photography was scarcely more than a stunt. Best exhibit of all was spry Oldster Jackson himself, stooped and white-bearded but talkative and effervescent...
...Reed Smoot, Utah Senator since 1903. Except for an occasional cussing-out as author of the Smoot-Hawley tariff, Latter-Day-Saint Apostle Smoot was promptly forgotten by a busy U. S., and his dismal prophecies with him. Last week thoughtful newsmen realized that at least two of gloomy Oldster Smoot's melancholy forecasts were being realized...