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...weakened in childhood, a neurotic, a hypochondriac, an alcoholic or a drug addict may result. Because of ego weakness, the average alcoholic lacks feelings of independence and power. "In alcohol he has discovered an easy, temporary and always obtainable method of pulling down the shade between himself and the threatening world of cold, hard, painful facts about...
...stretches of muted menace and its well-designed explosions of violence, Blood on the Sun has much of the clean, sharp-nerved charm which used to distinguish the adventure romances of the late great Douglas Fairbanks Sr. A shade less inspired than Fairbanks as an athlete, Cagney is an even better actor. He cannot even put a telephone receiver back on its hook without giving the action special spark and life. Moreover, liberal Actor-Producer Cagney is a man of sense and good will. He takes care, even in the midst of this angry bit of patriotism, to show that...
Today, as the last man is strung up by the strung of the window shade in the back of the room, the class takes the opportunity both for itself and his former students to offer congratulations to President Wernette of the University of New Mexico...
Flanking the Plain, under the shade of the great elms, stood excited parents and friends. Among them, more subdued but more deeply moved, stood an older part of the Long Grey Line of West Point graduates. At a booming command, some 4,800 white-gloved hands snapped 2,400 rifles to "present arms." Front & center, to the strains of Alma Mater, marched the 853 members of the class of 1945, the largest in West Point history. Then the Corps, company by company, wheeled and passed in review, rank on rigid rank saluting with eyes right, and being saluted in turn...
...pallid scholar is Professor J. (for James) Frank Dobie. In his years as head of the University of Texas English Department, the silver-haired, granite-faced, panther-hunting professor has spent about as much time in the shade of ranchers' chuck wagons in Texas, swapping yarns of gold strikes and bad men and vanishing longhorns, as he has in the university library. "Somehow ' or other," he once said, "I have been able to get to the heart of common people and rob them of their stories." Professor Dobie's many books on S. Southwest (Coronado...