Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mother has already got to Father No. 1, who runs out on David. Disillusioned, with much boyish charm David tells Mother she has made a nice mess of both their lives. She packs him off "where he belongs," to Father No. 1, who never did run out anyway, is still a city editor. Good shot: the Professor's harum-scarum daughter (Brenda Joyce), who calls all her father's students "Fathead," hearing that Fatheads David and pal have read Joseph Conrad's Victory. Daughter: "Smart fatheads...
...Employing about 1,000,000 people (four times as many as General Motors, three times as many as the U. S. Army), spending some $2,000,000,000 instructing one of every four inhabitants, education is still the biggest U. S. business...
...Bucky Walters, the renovated third-baseman who had pitched 27 victories for Cincinnati this year, suffered a 4-to-o shutout. Then, on the third day, came Our Boys' last chance to nail the pennant in front of the homefolks. With three games left to play they could still clinch it in Pittsburgh, by winning two games of their final series against the Pirates. But the Reds had been shut out in the last two games, had failed to score a run in 24 innings; their fielding had become butterfingered. Things looked dark in Cincinnati...
...mayhem that a lusty soprano of the oldtime concert stage can commit on that poignant last line of Kiss Me Again. You may think she has screamed as loudly as human lungs can manage all the way through the chorus, but you're wrong: she still has something special left for a flag finish. Here she goes. (Eyes glare.) 'Keesss...
...Brooklyn, N. Y., Claude Joseph ("Brad") Bradley, cement salesman whose friends recently celebrated his approaching death with a bang-up party (TIME, July 31), still had cancer of the spine, still lived, although Mayo Clinic physicians gave him only a few weeks in May. Said Salesman Bradley, hearty, slightly more hale and still selling plenty of cement: "The old docs tell me I'm getting along swell. For a dead man I'm doing all right...