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...this announcement, hell began to pop. In Johannesburg, British soldiers and bearded Brandwag men tangled in the street after a meeting. Police stopped the fighting, but next evening soldiers on leave were loaded for Boer. They crowded the town, and the sight of a bearded man in a streetcar was enough to touch off a riot. After attacking the car they went for the Brandwag office. Police kept them outside, but they did their best to wreck it with brickbats. To clear rioters from the streets the Government shipped police reinforcements into the city, called out troops and a volunteer...
...electricity generated by the combined presence of Clark Gable and Hedy Lamarr. Gable, as the footloose correspondent of a U. S. paper, finds himself involved in the political intrigue of the U. S. S. R. That also includes Miss Lamarr who strolls placidly through the role of a Soviet streetcar motorman intent on the cause. Scripters Ben Hecht and Charles Lederer's picture of bungling and dawdling inside the Soviet is a lot less witty, and less tender than Greta Garbo's memorable film Ninotchka. But their slapstick commentary is a relief from the realities of headlines...
...trades whatever. What I did say was that some professions-writers, engineers, inventors, chemists, etc.-enjoy the privilege of having to create new things in the course of their daily work if they want to survive, while others, whose useful work moves along more routine lines, like that of streetcar conductors or bookkeepers-the word "storekeeper" never was mentioned-were less fortunate in that respect. As a matter of fact, I think storekeepers do a lot of constructive and educational work. Words like "insurance peddlers" are strange to my vocabulary. I believe lawyers, insurance brokers and advertising men represent honorable...
...anti-Communist, and one deluded chap even signed under the impression he was participating in a popularity contest! This, despite the plainly printed declaration at the top of every list: "Communist Party Petition." Signers missed that, because they were "shaving at the time I signed" or "waiting for a streetcar." Meanwhile, as signatures fled from their lists, the Communists found themselves not only kicked out of the polls but dragged into the courts with a trial for fraud. The Legion-Hearst-Scripps-Howard entente's victory was complete--but it's still not clear what they were fighting...
...last great private U. S. art collection has hung on the walls of Lynnewood Hall, a chill, pedimented mansion in Elkins Park, Philadelphia suburb. The collection was begun by Peter Arrell Brown Widener, onetime butcher's boy, who made his pile in Civil War meat contracts and later streetcar franchises. His second and only surviving son, Joseph Early Widener, winnowed P. A. B.'s 700 pictures, made many a swap, bought only the best, until 100 canvases, all good and many masterpieces, glowed like jewels in Lynnewood Hall. The Widener collection was valued as high...