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...campers gather after breakfast for a ten-minute period of silent "contemplation'' (an idea borrowed from the Quaker camps), then rattle off in three jalopies to their project. Boss Mesavage hands out assignments, shows them how to use tools, sees that no one overstrains himself. Work is strictly limited to four hours a day; Mesavage overruled a demand that they be allowed to work...
...Hoover's Ambassador to Italy, Henry Prather Fletcher; Robert Maynard Hutchins, precocious president of the University of Chicago; John L. Lewis, still ambitious to be all labor's boss (see p. 14); ex-Vice President Charles Gates Dawes ("Hell'n Maria"); Philadelphia Industrialist Joseph Henry Scattergood, Quaker; and an oldtime opera star, Soprano Geraldine Farrar, now 59, in her youth a favorite of Germany's Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm (she was once called "The Darling of the Heir...
...University of Rochester, his first degree from a U.S. university. The reason the Prime Minister permitted Rochester to stage the kudos scoop of the year was that his mother, born Jennie Jerome, was a native of Rochester. But by a strange paradox, Mr. Churchill accepted the degree from a Quaker who for two years has fought to prevent the U.S. from joining Britain in the war and is a good friend of arch-isolationist Charles Lindbergh-Rochester's President Alan Valentine...
...casting, the film lends itself to an unfortunate study in contrast. For though Loretta Young may be the most beautiful woman in Hollywood, Robert Preston certainly rates as one of the most repulsive of box-office gorillas. As a naive Quaker schoolmarm from back East, Miss Young artfully rouses the respectable citizens of her infant boomtown against the skullduggery of Boss Edward Arnold; while Preston, his number one yes-man, stumbles haplessly through the routine of love and reformation...
...confidence as he intentionally walked Ed Buckley to fill the bases, and just as it looked as though his ultra-personal strategy might succeed, Lou Clay tapped a roller out to Quaker short-stop Hain, who booted the ball and with it the ball game. On the error Freddy Keyes scored from third and southpaw Mort Waldstein got credit for his second league...