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...model trains. Of course, someday, when he graduates, Vag would like to be an engineer. Not the clever kind they turn out by the thousands at Tech, but one of the real heman kind of engineers on locomotives of trains throughout the world, who know daily the indescribable thrill of easing the throttle open, gradually nursing the Johnson bar into the center notch, and letting the mighty monster rock over the high iron. Until that lucky day, Vag is going to try to get work as an extra yardman...
...Associate Justice) Hugo L. Black was at his best with a hostile witness, knowing well how to bait the trap, when to spring it. Senator Robert M. La Follette also knows the uses of the subtle query. Mr. Dies knows chiefly how to bellow. Last week he had the thrill of seeing his bellowing affect not just the ear of some baffled layman but the tympanums of that knowing politician, the Head of the Democratic Party...
...meet was not without blanket finishes despite the lopsided score. In the century Georgy Dana of Eliot barely edged out AI Blanchard of Winthrop and Dick Mudge of Kirkland, who tied for second; Dana's time was 10:6. It was another Elephant who provided the thrill in the mile, when Dinwiddle Smith forged in front coming down the home stretch to breast the tape in 5,25.4. Deacons Alan Manning and Hardy Phippen took second and third...
...above average A picture quality, RKO scarcely knew what to make of the situation. Finally the publicity department hit on a scheme. Instead of inviting critics in a body to a gala preview, RKO invited them in small groups to semiprivate showings, hoping thus to give each group the thrill of discovery. The scheme succeeded almost too well. By the time it was finally ready for release last week, A Man to Remember was one of the most pre-discovered pictures on record, appeared likely to have trouble living up to its advance ballyhoo...
...sundry to come to the Big Show, instead of pleading with the public to ignore the boy and permit sanity to overcome hysteria. John Warde was offered a baseball game, instead of a job. Whatever his last thoughts may have been, it is certain he received the thrill of his unimportant lifetime to find himself in the spotlight, which is all he started out to do in the first place. Whether he jumped or fell, is immaterial now. The fact remains that he was murdered by a sensation-hungry pack of human wolves...