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Throughout the first half of the Crawford version of this film, her appearance ; calculated to arrest Big Ben. A great wen clings to the side of Cinestar Crawford's face, distorting it to a grimace, pulling her eye into a squint.* Once revealed, it is seldom shown again. It does not have...
Jameson L. Chassin '41, Maspeth, L.I., N.Y.; Paul J. Ciffno '41, Dorchester, Mass.; Samuel P. Cowardin Jr. '43, New Lebanon, N.Y.; Thomas I. Crowell 3d. '43, Caldwell, N.J.; Charles W. Davis '41, Wen ham, Mass.; Robert T. Davis '42, Woodhaven, N.Y.; James W. Dow '41, Boston, Mass...
...Falsifications." Julia Willkie, who had stepped across the border from Canada to hear her brother speak in Buffalo, had told him: "Wen, keep punching, punching." Wen needed no encouragement last week. Roosevelt, caparisoned in righteous indignation, warned that he would point out "falsification of fact by the opposition." Willkie grinned, and kept on punching...
...panic of 1893 financial ruin struck the Willkies and a few years later Elwood's natural gas, prodigally wasted, played out. By the time "Wen" Willkie and his three brothers were in long pants they found plenty of work in summer moving abandoned Elwood houses into the country to be used as outbuildings for farmers. Their home was a sort of perpetual debating society. They kept more than 6,000 books around the house and old Herman Willkie, back at his law practice harder than ever, woke his children in the mornings by shouting quotations from the classics...
...When "Wen" went to the State University in Bloomington in 1909 he soon became a practicing politician as well as a conspicuous figure. He wore a loose-necked red sweater, chewed tobacco, preached socialism from campus soapboxes. By the time he became sophomore he was a leader of the campus "barbs," roared against the fraternities, preached revolt against the university faculty. One of the fraternity leaders (Beta Theta Pi) was his aristocratic friend Paul Vories McNutt, whom Willkie still likes to josh at Indiana University alumni dinners. But in two or three years Willkie's socialism wore...