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Irving Burton, in the American Mercury, called Wolff ". . . a legend in himself. A bulky, six-foot, gangling, stoop-shouldered eccentric, he delights in walking about Cambridge with his pet chimpanzee and asserts that he can tutor anyone possessing the brain of his ape through college...
...puffed into sight like a venerable battlewagon steaming up over the horizon. First a smudge of smoke, then the long cigar, then the familiar, stoop-shouldered hulk that a generation had come to know as the silhouette of greatness. Prime Minister Winston Churchill scowled as he emerged from the Queen Mary, took a firm grip on the rope handrail and eased himself across a gangplank to the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Navesink in New York Harbor. Once safely on board the cutter, he politely doffed his hat* to official U.S. meeters & greeters...
...final point is that these college presidents, coaches, athletic managers of various sorts, are products of the educational system of some years ago when morality (I suppose) was more taught than it is now. What made them so dishonest that they would stoop to the corupting of the rather simple animals they used to make money for them playing basketball? James A. Walker...
...sympathetic pupil and Actor Hyde White's hypocritical headmaster seem fuller than before, and are skillfully played. Most to its credit, the film gets up close to a superb piece of acting by Michael Redgrave, who makes the schoolmaster's inner suffering as vivid as his aging stoop, frigid correctness and nasal drone...
...Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Columbia; 2 sides LP). Arthur Schwartz's lively score is as full of good spirits and front-stoop romance as an old-fashioned block party. Marcia Van Dyke and Johnny Johnston sing the love songs (I'll Buy You a Star, Make the Man Love Me, etc.) straight from the shoulder; veteran Comedienne Shirley Booth comes through with a fine Brooklyn boid in her verce...