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Shipmates (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Robert Montgomery made a name for himself in minor-part impersonations of the jeunesse doree. He had an ability possessed by few other young cinemactors to give the impression, without wearing a heavy sweater or a key on his watch-chain, of having gone to college. Nevertheless, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer decided that his first star role should be that of a sailor, apparently an orphan, in an unlikely story which serves no purpose beyond the unnecessary one of advertising the U. S. Navy. In the improbable and not very amusing incidents which lead to Montgomery...
...Woodworth had with him his sweater with the varsity "N" (Northwestern) on it. That might bring him luck. It had in football. He never wore a headguard but he never got hurt. Knute Rockne of Notre Dame had respected the Northwestern team, called Woodworth one of the greatest guards in the country. But outboard motor racing is different from football; the whole thing depends on your engine more than yourself. No use fooling with your gas on a race as long as this; leaded or etherized gas has speed but lacks power, and Woodworth needed power to make the light...
...grader wrote: "I am happy to have the opportunity to write to the man who explored the South Pole. I have seen the pictures of your adventures in the cold blizzards. ... In those pictures of your expeditions, I liked best where you dressed Igloo your dog, in that sweater and shoes. Next I liked where you dropped the flag at the South Pole. I really think it all was wonderful...
...Lynn, Mass., Lois Taylor, 3, went out to play, garbed in felt hat, pink silk dress, scarf, and underwear, new shoes and rubbers. At midnight she returned in an old red sweater, red hat, dirty old shoes. Her pretty curls had been hacked away. Horrified, her mother told the police. Their discovery: Lois had played "house" with another little girl, had lent verisimilitude to her rôle of "father" by changing her clothes, cutting her locks...
...help a drive to get Manhattan women to knit warm clothing for the unemployed and their wives & children, Grover Aloysius Whalen cried: "If I could knit, I'd be making a master sweater for some little three-year-old girl right this minute...