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Deceivingly billed as "M-G-M's Terrific Western Thriller," the new Beery vehicle (with square wheels) is really a wishy-washy comedy. Beefy Beory is just an easy-going tramp, very un-high waymanlike, who by very obvious means terrorizes a hunk of the Wild West by holding up stage coaches while posing as a respectable citizen...
...Harry's beat is no longer the axis between bourgeois. Key West and revolutionary Havana; he now works out of wartime Martinique, and the villains are Vichyites. Marie is no longer an idealized image of happy marriage; she is a tall, hoarse, egregious, 22-year-old tramp, so worldly-wise that when a policeman all but slaps her jaw out of joint she hardly bats...
Festivities will begin with the formation of the parade in the Eliot-Kirkland triangle at 8:15 o'clock. The marchers will tramp down Mill Street, back of Lowell House, and then turn up Plympton to Massachusetts Avenue, attracting eager hordes of Gold Coasters and Bellboys along...
...student at Washington's American University, Editor Bucke picketed the U.S. House restaurant because Negroes were barred from it. While a student at Boston University he disguised himself as a tramp, spent several days hobnobbing with panhandlers. One conclusion: "Many missions which supposedly were such great builders of Christian character were only rackets...
...character of the U.S. press has changed with the economic times. It was free in the days of small business, says Nebraska-born Lasch, when "the tramp printer and ambitious editor marched in the van of westward migration. . . . Every party, every faction had its own newspaper. A shoestring and the gift of gab were almost all a man needed to launch one." When business grew big, "personal journalism gave way to the corporation and the chain." The press became "an integral part of the economic structure. . . . Business had run politics and politics had run the press. Now the newspaper...