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Three years ago, when the cops first caught Knifey stealing, they listed him as a boy of "superior intelligence." Knifey had a flair for mechanics. A home for wayward boys took charge of him, put him on a farm near Momence, 40 miles south of Chicago. There Knifey broke into the home of a neighbor, eccentric old Farmer Henry Allain, who was always pottering about with inventions. So they sent Knifey to St. Charles reform school for boys. A year ago he was paroled for good behavior...
Second, third, and fourth prizes of $25 each were awarded to Arthur G. Maling '44 of Chicago for his essay entitles "Let Us Live to Make Men Free--a Biography of Colonel Francis Wayward Parker," Kirby M. Milton '44 of St. Joseph, Michigan for his 'The Turbulent Thirties," and Philip H. Russell, Jr. '44 of Hamden, Connecticut, for "Two Economists of Yale...
...Fifteen wayward sons of Harvard, Amherst, and Dartmouth turned up in the Northampton Court House yesterday morning at 9 o'clock to receive the dictum handed down by the elderly, slightly myopic judge...
Randolph Scott is the main rider of the range, and treats every crisis with a cool and studied calm. Unfortunately for himself and the lady of the piece, however, his last crisis, when he shoots it out with a wayward brother, does him in. Said lady is thereby left to the endearments of the smooth but sturdy Harvardman, played by Robert Young and his most insipid smirk. The lady is an unknown by the name of Virginia Gilmore, who is blonde if nothing else. Dean Jagger is the capable Western Union boss through all trials and tribulations and does...
...Genii in "The Thief of Bagdad," is about as devilishly good as Lucifer, Jr. could be. His be-winged opponent in the contest over Little Joe's destination after death, the Laws's General himself, is sung and acted, with the experienced touch of Todd Duncan. Little Joe, the wayward, crap-shooting husband of Petunia and object of the struggle between the Lawd and the Devil, is a happy-go-lucky masterpiece in the hands of Dooley Wilson. Katherine Dunhan heats up the atmosphere with every step as Georgia Brown, a Dixieland Danger who makes Little Joe forget the Devil...