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...Jean Dixon, conceives the idea that Hollywood needs a school of vocal culture and that she is willing to play the adept pedagogue with the support of Jerry and George. They all go out to the land of plenty and for the remainder of the piece the playwrights thumb their noses at America's greatest industry. It is the story of the rise of George, the dull, to Hollywoods greatest and most well known producer and director, a rise founded upon a series of the most gigantic and glaring blunders that the mind can conjure. At one time, for example...
Queen Mary smiled provingly. Mr. Gandhi was not in "morning dress" as the royal invitation had requested (TIME, Nov. 9) but he was wearing a loincloth wider by a thumb's breadth than usual, and a shawl of homespun. Queen Mary saw nothing unseemly, betrayed the merest flicker of interest as she espied the Mahatma's dangling dollar watch...
...liked Cambridge. We liked its great rambling quadrangles. We liked its utter lack of echoing, brick-bare dormitory halls. We liked the white colonial apartment doors, unpierced by mail slots for ad minions to thumb with circulars and manifestes. We liked the huge, gentlemanly apartments, with floors of oak and gleaming waxed rubber, with showers in every bathroom and two washbowls...
Shrewd, humble, honest and prodigiously rotund, Wilbert Robinson has been manager of the Brooklyn Baseball team, named for him "the Robins," since 1913. Before that, as catcher for the Baltimore Orioles, most celebrated team in baseball history, he once bit off an injured thumb so he could finish a game. Last week, the directors of the Brooklyn Club, possibly the most valuable property in the National League, decided they needed a new manager, selected one Maximillian Carnarius ("Max Carey"), onetime Pittsburgh outfielder...
Yale University, much to its probable discomfiture, has hatched another crop of mosquitoes to edit again the Harkness Hoot. These young posts hover over Yale's precious architecture, thumb their noses at its partially Gothic elegance, refuse to be in any way cowed by the Harkness millions, and take an unholy delight in the inconsistencies they see taking shape around them--particularly in the Gothic exterior of Pierson-Davenport College and its Georgian inner court. They helpfully offer as their own proposed Yale building a drawing of a very prettily designed small church of American colonial architecture topped with...