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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there are already indications of a growing animosity in the town against college interference. Since experience is probably the only true teacher, it may appear futile for Harvard to tender advice. But the faint hope that Dartmouth will heed this university's career in such spheres justifies some sort of warning...
...until late at night could rescue crews go into the village, for like a pile of firecrackers, ammunition dumps sputtered and banged erratically long after the main fireworks were over. When at last some sort of order was restored, there was little to be done but gruesome counting: 48 known dead, 32 at the point of death, 440 seriously injured, 800 homes destroyed, 8,313 persons left homeless. Completely wrecked was an insane asylum...
...Freedom Ring offers a story of the sort which has always been traditional for all Westerns. The stirrings of Hollywood's social consciousness are indicated by the fact that the villain whom the hero (Nelson Eddy) routs is not a cattle rustler nor a bandit but a rapacious railroad owner (Edward Arnold), who is trying to hornswoggle sturdy ranchers out of their land. Thus, while conforming to type, with a full quota of fist fights, shootings, holdups and spectacular conflagrations, Let Freedom Ring reaches its climax when Eddy delivers a rousing speech which convinces railroad workers that they...
...absolute howl on the British Broadcasting Corp.'s Wednesday night Band Wagon is "Resident Comedian" Arthur Askey, who is a sort of British Joe Cook. Month or so ago Askey ("Big-Hearted Arthur") and his stooge, Stinker Murdoch, made a batter of mainly carbolic acid and turpentine for some cakes to discourage an unwanted guest. The batter was to be called Askitoff. In mixing it they professed to spill some on the carpet, whereupon the dirt magically disappeared. This was, Askey's cue to crack "Askitoff will take it off." Thereafter Askey began repeating the crack several times...
Over the back bar in the saloon run by Antonio Michelangelo Leonardo da Vinci Galento in Orange, N. J. there hangs a sign saying: JOE LOUIS IS A BUM. Two-ton Tony Galento-a lumpy, hog-fat heavyweight who won a sort of succès d'estime last year by bowling over fever-racked Nathan Mann faster than Joe Louis did-has been snarling defiance at Louis ever since scheming Fight Manager Joe Jacobs took him over three years ago. For the seven years before that, Tony Galento, who trains on beer and does his road work...