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...half so successful as Hypnotist Edelman. Wary citizens of Los Angeles were not the easy marks he thought them, and they insisted on a time-consuming referendum before they would sell him the land in Chavez Ravine that he wants for a ballpark. Wrigley Field, the only L.A. playground O'Malley now owns, is too small for big-league crowds, and Walter has been buttering up the city fathers of Pasadena, trying to rent their Rose Bowl. If his gift of gab fails him, he will have to fall back on Los Angeles' Memorial Coliseum. Either stadium could...
...there are touches. Margaret Leighton's face, for instance, is an excellent playground of contrasts, especially when she is acting the real novelist, puzzled by passion. Moreover, and most fortunately, Ralph Richardson acts her husband. He is casually perfect, and finds a flourish even in the stiff upper lip of, "There's only one thing more to say. Apparently I haven't made it sufficiently clear. I happen to love you very much...
...swivel-necked softball fans saw a faster, flashier brand of ball than many a big-league booster has seen all season. The slow, playground pastime of Depression days has speeded into an organized sport of fierce and popular competition. There is nothing soft about it; even the big, hand-filling softball itself is hard as a regulation baseball...
Into the Sandbox. The Freinet method was an outstanding flop. Pupils had to memorize whole words without any training in the alphabet, figure arithmetic problems without first handling numbers from one to nine. Any confused youngster was free to head for the playground. Shrugged one demoralized teacher: "Instead of struggling with their work, they jump into the sandbox...
Coaxed outside by a squad of doorbell pushers, some four dozen of the flat-dwelling workers, wives and children watched in a light drizzle as a team of men and women hauled a sizable rubber-tired cart into position at one end of the playground. Quickly the cart pullers-parishioners of nearby St. Philip's Church-set up three canvas walls (painted to resemble an East End living room) on the rough-planked cart, tapped a nearby flat for electricity to operate the homemade floodlights. Then the bell swinger-Father Oswald, Anglican priest in charge of St. Philip...