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...Brown's School Days" is the latest of Gene Towne's dramatizations of those well-read yarns that are an integral part of the education of every child who ever saw the inside of a public library. Graduates of prep school, "select" or otherwise, will see in this account of early nineteenth century Rugby the origins of those mysterious forms and rituals which give the prep schools today their distinctive aroma. Everyone will see a fine story, magnificently acted, effectively produced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

...Army made a thorough hash of the Civil War draft, proved in World War I that civilian operation was better. Key civilians in the next draft will be the members of 6,500-odd county boards, registrars at some 125,000 voting precincts, who will actually interview and select the draftees. The system is based on existing election machinery, in many instances will be manned by local election officials. For getting this machine into motion, the Army has a carefully timed schedule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE DRAFT: How It Works | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...already being made at the Union and the Tennis and Squash Shop, Samborski said in an interview yesterday. The tournament, which will begin Monday, September 30, and will be played off during the week, will be held under the supervision of Freshman tennis coach, Dick Dorson. Dorson will probably select his Yardling team on the basis of the tournament showings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SAMBORSKI PLANS FRESHMAN INTRA-MURAL SPORT PROGRAM | 9/20/1940 | See Source »

...same time they gained the cooperation of the Socialists in insisting that President Ortiz revise his Cabinet, last week forced his ministers to hand in their portfolios. By week's end their crablike progress had brought them to their goal. Ortiz handed over to Castillo authority to select a new Cabinet, which he promptly filled with six conservatives and only one nonconservative, a doff of the hat to the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Crabs' Progress | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

Freddy Fitzsimmons is fat and one year short of 40. Yet in this, his 16th year of big-league baseball, he has pitched the Dodgers to twelve victories (and only two defeats), the best 1940 pitching average in the National League. Because he recently joined the select circle of pitchers who have won 200 games, Dodger rooters last week presented Hero Fitzsimmons with a $1,700 sedan (bought with a barrelful of nickels and dimes), enough luggage for a round-the-world cruise, a radio, shotgun, suit of clothes and a watch whose dial spells F.Fitzsimmons. Only other active major...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Unpredictable Dodgers | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

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