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...passed, Princeton's leadership rests with "keeping standards high," according to Gordon W. Allport '19, Professor of Social Relations, a top public opinion expert himself. "Public opinion polling occupies such a crucial position in our life," he declared Monday, "that we cannot permit it to degenerate into a racket. In this connection Princeton's archives and journal set high levels for both ethical and technical performance...
...with her just long enough to swipe a pseudo-telepathic formula through which he can graduate to the big time. No. 2 is a luscious, loyal dimwit named Molly (Coleen Gray), whom he marries. No. 3 is Lilith (Helen Walker), a pseudo-psychiatrist who outsmarts him at his own racket...
...story: a Jewish boy (John Garfield) of New York's Lower East Side, short on money and long on push, graduates from the amateur fighter class and travels fast. The faster he travels, the dirtier the racket gets. He is disgusted, but in his vanity and his desire for money he rationalizes about the general ugliness of the ringside business, and thus alienates his mother (Anne Revere) and his sweetheart (Lilli Palmer). He agrees to throw his last fight before retiring, but recovers his integrity in time, whales hell out of his opponent and wins back Miss Palmer...
Practicing tankmen are persuaded to keep their distance; the Ministry of Agriculture cancels an order to plow the pipits' particular field; village parishioners sing a lady poet's uproarious anthem in praise of the birds. Menace is supplied by practitioners of the queerest racket yet to break into the movies: egg stealing. The local colonel (retired) bumbles out the movie's "message," to the general effect that Englishmen, funny as they appear about it, are lovers of nature and of fair play, and that, in a sense, the tawny pipits are what England is fighting...
Completion of the new courts is expected to relieve the overloading of last year of the Radcliffe, Divinity School, and Business racket facilities. No longer will it be necessary to sign up for a court several days in advance, as many were obliged to do at the height of the past season...