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...studied calm. Unfortunately for himself and the lady of the piece, however, his last crisis, when he shoots it out with a wayward brother, does him in. Said lady is thereby left to the endearments of the smooth but sturdy Harvardman, played by Robert Young and his most insipid smirk. The lady is an unknown by the name of Virginia Gilmore, who is blonde if nothing else. Dean Jagger is the capable Western Union boss through all trials and tribulations and does a very workmanlike...
...slithered in that a vile shindig is to be held this Friday; that immoral pastimes such as the dance shall be indulged in; that wild revelry shall shriek through hallowed halls until the first vestiges of dawn. In other words, in an effort to laugh down the sinister smirk of finals, Leverett House is throwing a dance. For some trivial sum, you will be able to prance and dance to the music of Kent Bartlett and watch a smooth, suave exhibition of what should be (but ain't) done on the dance floor...
...GOOD OLD DAYS-David L. Cohn -Simon & Schuster ($3.75). Dressed up in a period-smirk jacket, David Cohn's volume is an analysis of three decades (1905-35) of U. S. living. Mr. Cohn got his material from a book which he recognizes as one of the most valuable and beautiful of U. S. documents: the Sears, Roebuck catalogue. The materials he handles are incorruptibly good, but his tireless facetiousness is tiresome. Fair enough as a 579-page guidebook and commentary, The Good Old Days is not in the same class with any one issue of the catalogue itself...
They did not smirk because Sears, Roebuck (1939 sales: about 23% over 1938) and Montgomery Ward (1939 sales: about 15% over 1938) were reported holding nearly the same margin over 1939, although both announced higher prices for the spring. Nor because January retail grocery sales, best in rural areas, were running 5% ahead of 1939. Nor because retail auto sales declined less than half as much as is "normal" in January, kept 26.6% ahead...
Sung with neither smirk nor schmalz by onetime Preacher Frank Luther and a few assistants, these songs give a clearer glimpse of the old-time U. S. than many a ponderous history book. The U. S. soldier of the 1860's sang about his girl (Lorena), his mother (Who Will Care lor Mother Now?), his pesky bumps & bruises (Eating Goober Peas, A Life on the Vicksburg Bluff) as simply, sentimentally and humanly as his grandson did in the World War. Sample (North...