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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Economics Lesson. In Manhattan, when David Feldman was asked by the court how he had managed to save $6,410 in seven years while working as a bootblack, he explained: "I was on relief...
...Sydney Granville, as Pooh-Bah, looks more like Friar Tuck than Lord High Everything Else, but he plays the part for all its' worth. As for Martyn Green, anyone who has ever seen the man in action knows that the show could rock and he'd still save...
Jack and Jill* had earned its birthday party, and the Post's plug. Curtis Publishing Co., which launched Jack and Jill as an experiment, then withdrew it from the newsstands during the war to save paper, had watched its mail circulation rise to nearly 500,000 (including 220 in Braille). Beginning with the anniversary issue, Jack and Jill will be back on the newsstands...
...Says CalTech's Professor Charles Lauritsen: "The man was unbelievable! He always gave you the right answer before you formulated the question.") Gradually and painfully, coached by colleagues and profiting by errors, Oppenheimer learned to put a checkrein on his galloping mind, to raise his voice, and to save, his sarcasms for showoffs and frauds.* In time, Cal and CalTech realized that Oppenheimer (like Whitehead and Bridgman) was "a man to whom you could be an apprentice." By 1939, "Oppie" (as his apprentices called him) had 25 full-time graduate students working under him. In the spring, when...
...lion. Gail's scientific sweetheart (John Lund), Detective Shawn (William Demarest) and various shifty-looking businessmen who might profit by Gail's death, all act as if Robinson were crazy or criminal. Everybody tries to keep him away from the menaced young woman he is trying to save. And sure enough, a flower gets stepped on, wind smacks the windows open, a lion breaks loose from a zoo, the grandfather clock bongs 11-and so forth. These busy goings-on are not really very creepy "unless you bring along an overwhelming will to believe. Stretch by stretch...