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Oxford-educated Patrick Duncan, 34, is the son of the first South African to be appointed Governor General, the late Sir Patrick Duncan. He hobbled into the location's filth-laden alleys supported by Manilal Gandhi, 60-year-old son of the patron saint of all passive resisters: Mahatma Gandhi. Both men wore the yellow, green and black rosette of the African National Congress (A.N.C.), which preaches racial justice but deplores the violent solutions of its Communist outriders...
...twin picture is also a double debut. It is the first offering of Huntington Hartford, 40-year-old art patron and heir to A & P millions, who decided to turn producer, with plans to deliver two pictures a year during the next three years for RKO release. It also introduces to the screen (as the beguiling bride of Crane's sheriff) Marjorie Steele, a onetime cigarette girl in a Hollywood nightspot, who is Hartford's wife in real life...
...late patron came up dragging a mother behind her. "Hello, hello, hello," said Santa in a fair approximation of a Walt Disney Santa's hearty boom. "What can we do for you?" The little girl started and dissolved giggling into her mother's skirts. "She's a little shy," explained mother, leading her away...
There is only one thing to distinguish the above quote from scores of similar opinions written about the University in the last thirty years; its author is the ony American buried in Red Square, Moscow. John Reed, movie biographer of the Russian Revolution, was the patron saint of the John Reed Club, oldest Communist student organization at the College. The swarm of Red and Red-front groups that followed it, and the militancy of their activities from the beginning of the Depression to the end of the post-war honeymoon with Russia spawned the Red Legend the University still cannot...
Martin believes "a man should go where he belongs." We are happy to say that be finally does go where he belongs--Taxes, of course. First he has to pull a few fast ones on his old patron, the governor of Chihuahua, and beat up come poor old Apaches who are "terrorizing" the countryside...