Word: school
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Solid Advice. In Sydney, Australia, the Rev. Jack Leonard, who is also a ventriloquist, showed up for Sunday school with a wooden dummy on his lap, obliged his youthful parishioners to listen while it delivered a 20-minute sermon...
...selecting Maclntyre to take over, Eastern's board of directors recognized the impossibility of finding another chief executive in Rickenbacker's self-made mold. Boston-born Malcolm Maclntyre graduated from Yale ('29), went on to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar and to Yale Law School before joining the Manhattan law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell in 1933. He entered the Army Air Corps in 1942, served overseas with the Air Transport Command, left in 1946 as a colonel. After two years of Washington law practice, he joined the Manhattan law firm of Debevoise, Plimpton & McLean...
...Newcomer Britt's acting ability still remains to be proved, there is no question about the professional skill of longtime German Box Office Idol Jurgens. Though he is almost too handsome for the role of the petty-tyrannical high school teacher (played in the original by Emil Jannings), Jurgens subtly conveys the unavowed jealousy that flares up within him whenever he catches his students ogling Lola Lola. And at the film's climax, when he is persuaded to play the clown in Lola Lola's revue before an audience of old school cronies. Jurgens penetrates rare emotional...
...other hand, De Sica is unable to accept the fact that his 16-year-old daughter has, since her last fitting, developed a 35-inch bust herself, and is holding furtive assignations with a school chum in the ruins of ancient Rome. "We teach our children how to be children," reflects one of the characters in The Maid. "But has anyone taught us how to be fathers? We have to play it by ear." And that is how they play the whole picture...
...people are one of the few lingering groups of exotics still maintaining cultural autonomy before the melting pot gets them -the small-town Negroes of the South. Anderson himself was a Southern Negro, but not until he was 14. Born in Panama of Jamaican parents, he went to school in Kingston before going to Oxford, N.C., where he lived until he was drafted into the Army in 1943. A master sergeant at war's end, Anderson took the G.I. bill through North Carolina College ('47), went on to study at Columbia University and the Sorbonne, concentrating on 18th...