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...soldier. The story lingers admiringly with such illustrious voyageurs as Leif the Viking, Marco Polo, Diaz and Vasco da Gama, Columbus and Magellan, Livingstone and Stanley. Doughty and Lawrence, Peary, Scott and Shackleton, but does not neglect a multitude of colorful, less familiar figures. There is Hsuan-tsang, the studious, well born Buddhist monk who, fortified by a dream, passed beyond the Great Wall in 629 A. D., set out across the grim Gobi, finding his way by the bones and droppings of camels. Troubled by mirages, once nearly dying of thirst when he dropped his waterskin, Hsuan made himself...
Manhattan Melodrama (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) opens spectacularly with the General Slocum disaster out of which are tossed two orphaned boys into Manhattan's East Side. One is studious while the other shoots craps. Years later the student has become district attorney, the crapshooter a top-money gambler. If Jim Wade (William Powell) is straight as a die, Blackie Gallagher (Clark Gable) is crooked as his own dice. Gallagher's sleek mistress (Myrna Loy) loves him honestly, leaves him when he refuses to make her an honest woman. In Harlem's Cotton Club she falls in love with...
...first annual report, President Conant made the statement that "a satisfactory balance must be struck between teaching and research," few persons thought that this was anything more than the traditional reference to the traditional, but long-forgotten ideal of combining in one man the brilliant lecturer and the studious laboratory worker. Apparently this reference was more than a meaningless formality, for today the President has acted...
...slashing fares to railroad levels. Slim, young-looking, with a muscular bulge in the jaw, Errett Cord presents a collegiate aspect despite never having gone to college. He rarely speaks his mind, but when he does he uses a language racy and rich with anatomical allusions, forceful expletives. Studious-looking with his glasses on, he might be taken for a young college instructor. Without glasses he is more apt to resemble a high-pressure magazine salesman. He has two sons by his first wife, who died in 1930. In 1931 he married Virginia Kirk Tharpe. With their baby Nancy...
...rear of the truck and began pulling out sacks of mall. There were eleven monstrous canvas bags, each sealed and franked with the impressive insignia of the United States government. Slowly and laboriously they were dragged, one at a time, up the steps to the quarters of a studious sophomore, who received in great astonishment both the bags and the black looks of the departing porters...