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...Empty Bullpen. To instill confidence in his young pitchers, he keeps his bullpen empty, sends a relief man down only when the situation is critical. This policy is clicking with has-beens like Schoolboy Rowe and Si Johnson, as well as the green youngsters for whom it was intended. Rowe has already won six games ; Johnson, seven...
...Flicka (20th Century-Fox) is a sun-drenched, innocent film as wholesome as graham crackers. It is mainly 89 minutes of handsome Technicolor shots of Utah landscape animated with horses. Both scenery and animals are so lustrous that they overshadow the picture's slight, demi-idyllic story about Schoolboy Ken McLaughlin (Roddy Mc-Dowall) and his nervous sorrel filly, Flicka. Young Ken trains the horse, nurses and loves her. He learns through these tasks and emotions much about the equipment he will need in adult life...
...work. His father, a successful businessman, called all artists "monkey drawers," made his son swear by the Holy Virgin that he would not take up art as long as his father lived. Young Luis kept his oath till he was in his middle 30s. But when he was a schoolboy he made such beautiful maps that his geography teacher told the other children to copy them...
...divided by 1,000 publications equals $27,189.37 in any schoolboy's arithmetic. This figure includes administrative costs. The cost per word of the State Guides was admittedly high by comparison with other types of books-particularly because of the staggering research job involved...
...miles from Liberia the President turned up aboard a U.S. destroyer anchored in Brazil's winding Po-tengy River at Natal. There he conferred with round, determined little President Getulio Dornelles Vargas, an "old friend." After long conversations, sometimes in Franklin Roosevelt's schoolboy French, sometimes through an interpreter, the two Presidents announced that they were determined to keep the Atlantic Ocean "safe for all," that Africa's Dakar must never again become "a blockade or an invasion threat against the two Americas." And once more the President rode in a jeep-with his Brazilian confrere-this...