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Another novelty for Eastern skidoodlers is an automatic timer. Downhill runners on the Green Mountain's Whippersnapper Trail, by dropping a coin in a box at the starting line, can find their time-registered in split seconds-in a box at the finish line...
...Those kids can really pour it on," said Duble last night. "You've never seen such a bunch of seatbacks. They can do everything the big-timer...
This seemed to break the ice, and so he gained confidence. "I'm just here to clear up some rumors that have been floating around the B School. How much time do you spending grading a report?" An old-timer volunteered the information: "About one-half hour each, with a little more for the good ones. And incidentally, there is very little correlation between the grade and the time devoted to writing the report; of course there are some exceptions to that," she remarked, recalling a two and one-quarter page work she had once corrected...
...Nights in a Barroom" fall hardest where it should have shone brightest. The specialty numbers--especialty those of old-timer Vic Faust, a toothless Al Smith with a hangover--click beautifully. But the attempts of the rest of the cast to pile on the old-fashioned melodrama with a trowel fall pretty flat. They use restraint where hamming is called for; and they don't even give the villain-hissing audience a fighting chance to display its wares. A livelier paced direction, with more emphasis on the exists and entrances that give blood-and-thunder its special quality would have...
...have taught him the difference between law as it is taught in law schools and law as it is practiced in law courts. This pedagogic plot turns into hilarious comedy, largely through the expert energy of Cinemactress Arthur, the expert apathy of Cinemactor Grant, the expert wispiness of Old-Timer Colman...