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...morally instructed child grows into a businessman to whom "aggression, competitiveness and skepticism" are represented as the only ways of "being on the ball" and "going places." During working hours, the businessman plays to the hilt the role of the "smooth operator." Evenings and weekends, he attempts to revert to the honest, kindly role of principled Christian and loving father...
Monkey Business (20th Century-Fox) works overtime at a far-fetched plot about a laboratory chimpanzee who accidentally mixes an elixir of youth. When Research Chemist Gary Grant and his wife (Ginger Rogers) drink some of this magical potion, they promptly revert to adolescence. Gary gets himself a crew haircut, a loud sport jacket and a fire-red convertible. Ginger, turning into a giggly jitterbug, slips a live goldfish into Tycoon Charles Coburn's trousers and plants a custard pie under his posterior...
...much for my report on Harvard College. Now if I may I shall revert to the special problems of this period in which the world is poised between war and peace. It is more important than ever for the American people to think clearly about the nature of our educational institutions at every level and to clarify the special role of each type of school, college, and university. I shall confine my remarks to those universities which like Harvard are composed of an undergraduate college in charge of a scholarly faculty and a group of professional schools...
Explaining Soapy. The big question in the minds of Soapy's ardent friends and well-wishers is whether he can ever revert to the independent old Soapy of Salisbury, Princeton and Michigan. Or will his political indebtedness, like his graying hair, increase as he progresses further into politics? The questions are extremely pertinent because Soapy, as ever, has budgeted his time closely. He would like to be in the Senate by 1954 and in the White House...
...Avco's new engine production, of course. The Air Force had suddenly discovered that altering and equipping the plant at Government expense for Avco would run into millions; it didn't like the idea that when Avco's lease ran out, the plant would revert to Hirsch, improvements and all. Hirsch filed suit to protect his property...