Word: scholl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...satire is itself twofold, kidding Texas by way of a national picture magazine that decides to boom a small-time Texas politician (Kenny Delmar) for the presidency. The politician is meanwhile running for re-election as state senator against a young veteran (Danny Scholl). The plot is thickened by stirring in the old candidate's daughter (Mary Hatcher) to be the young candidate's sweetheart...
...love interest is supplied by Mary Hatcher as Hominy's daughter, and Danny School as a returned Air Force veteran. (One of Mr. Scholl's songs, in which he reminisces of his flying experiences, is called, believe it or not, "The Big Movie Show in the Sky." Typical line: "Its a funny feeling when you see St. Peter smile/And he says he's had a movie camera on you all the while.") The love situation is complicated when some of the disgruntled veterans put Easy Jones (Mr. Scholl) up to run against Hominy. However, as dishonest as Hominy...
Long cherished as a natural for fallen arches and other pediatric disorders, this term's booklines have proven a shocking disappointment to the moguls of Dr. Scholl's. After an initial rush, present lines move with the speed of a well-oiled production system, and the last interminable half-hour becomes bearable through the installation of seats in the Coop's bookroom. The regularly occurring fiascoes of previous terms seem to have driven home a hardlearned lesson among book dealers throughout the Square, but an early shortage of essential texts makes the actual purchase of books a highly dubious proposition...
...Exonians completed the three-quarter mile course in four minutes and nine seconds. In the seventh and eighth heats of the College rowing tourney, a boat stroked by Seligman nosed out Scholl's eight by one foot, and Ross' crew defeated Emmett's. Seligman's time was 4:12, and the Ross boat covered the course...
...that the outside world knew on Feb. 22 was that Hans and Maria Scholl and Adrian Probst had been beheaded. Since then other Munich citizens have laid their heads on the block before a white-gloved axman: Kurt Huber, a professor of psychology for 17 years; a lad who exchanged a leg at Stalingrad for the Iron Cross, First Class; at least nine other students. By last week it was apparent that the Nazis were worried. There were more arrests at Munich and a close watch on students at the schools. No one outside Germany could tell for certain...