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Intellectually, Director Anatole Litvak (Snake Pit; Sorry, Wrong Number) has behaved something like a schoolboy on his first visit to Paris. With visions of Camille and René Clair movies and Tropic of Cancer commingling gloriously in his head, he has rushed off down all the side streets in search of life, and has emerged, after interminable researches, triumphant-with an expurgated postcard...
...memorandums (and the one opinion he has written so far) with a yellow lead pencil on standard, yellow, lined legal pads. He writes with his right hand, although he is naturally a left-hander (he was once a southpaw outfielder on a sandlot baseball team). When he was a schoolboy, a teacher tied his left hand behind him and forced him to write with his right. This practice, long condemned as psychologically disturbing, has left no noticeable scars on the Chief Justice...
Applied Science. In Greenmeadows, New Zealand, a 13-year-old schoolboy was nabbed by police after he spotted a fireworks display in a shopwindow, focused the sun's rays through a magnifying glass, set off an explosion that destroyed ?16 ($44.80) worth of merchandise...
Sophomore Phil Burnaman at 137, up against the New Jersey schoolboy champ Ed Pitts, took advantage of his breaks and took the decision after three close periods...
Sidetracked Executive. But for all his irascibility with other New Dealers, he was not tempted by Republican suggestions that he might be a presidential candidate in 1936 or 1940; such a course did not seem consistent with honor. He glowed like a schoolboy when he heard that F.D.R. had referred to him as a "great executive." But when the President chose Harry Hopkins' method of spending relief money ("shoveling" most of it out for leaf raking and other make-work jobs instead of following Ickes' advice and spending it all on permanent public works), he felt bound...