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Lassie Come Home (M.S.M.), as written by the late Major Eric Knight, was one of the best children's books in years. M.G.M.'s version will delight not only children, but any adult with a healthy childhood memory. Lassie celebrates nothing more profound than the simple and timeworn relationship of a boy and a dog. It dramatizes the uncomplicated goodness of an animal in a complicated human world...
That the new cruzeiro system would bring immediate relief seemed dubious. In effect, Brazil would get not only new money, but more money. Only gradually will the new 10, 20 and 50 centavo pieces, the new, uniform-size cruzeiro bills supplant the timeworn milreis. The new coins, copper, aluminum and zinc, minted since Oct. 12 are being released immediately, but surcharged milreis bills will for a time serve as cruzeiro bills...
...pious hypocrisy and old-school stupidity which British rule has clamped over India for 150 years. To her, the British Raj hasn't changed since Kipling left the Punjab. To the Raj, India is still the cornerstone of the Empire and must be held at all costs. The timeworn clichés with which excesses and failings have been shrouded Miss Mitchell attacks with a Bryn-Mawrian vigor implemented with the background of nine years on the secretariat of the Institute of Pacific Relations...
Mexican Spitfire (RKO) adds old-fashioned horseplay and pie throwing to the timeworn comic mix-up of a henpecked U. S. husband impersonating an eccentric British lord, who keeps turning up at the wrong moment. The picture also tosses Lupe Velez, scratching and screaming in a tequila baritone, back into the U. S. cinemarena. Sample Velez quips, pointed up by prods, kicks, Mexican curses: "Shud up!", "Why don't you mind my own biz-ness?", "I'm just a big gallstone around his neck," "Shud...
...advancing more rapidly than normal children in everything except language (they are learning both French and English). Dr. Blatz expects that in a year or two their I. Q.'s will be between 95 and 105. He is studying them to seek new light on the "timeworn problem of whether heredity or environment is most important in the development of personality." Most aggressive, most disobedient and greatest social lion among the five is Annette. Most popular is Yvonne who receives more attention from the others than she seeks. Most socially balanced is Marie. When one of the quins...