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Like Professor Potts, Scriptwriters Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder took time out for research. Among the oddities they unearthed was one"Muggsy" Meyers, race-track tout, who refers to himself as a "ducat hustler." From Muggsy and associated sources, the scripters found to their dismay that in 1941's "jellybean jargon" a country boy was no longer a yokel, but a "loose tooth"; a dollar, no longer a buck, had become a "banger"; "cooking with gas" meant perfect understanding...
...seated at a piano and Mickey Rooney saying. "Oh, even if you can't, let me hear you just for the fun of it," and then she is forced to warble a flock of notes that the Hollywood songwriters bunched together between floor shows at the Brown Derby. Virginia Wilder doesn't help. Well, there is no use in going into gruesome details. Just take our advice and speed next Sunday afternoon listening to the symphony...
Myra Hess, British pianist now in London, has received 315 birthday greetings by mail since her birthday-last Feb. 25. Mutual friends conspired in a "chain-greeting" plot. Among the conspirators: Lord Halifax, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Thornton Wilder, Albert Einstein...
...epileptics in the U.S. have a better chance of leading normal life than ever before. Such is the optimistic opinion of two top-flight experts in epilepsy: Dr. Wilder Penfield, head of the Montreal Neurological Institute, and Dr. Theodore Charles Erickson of the University of Wisconsin. Last week they published the scientific reasons for this belief in an authoritative text on epilepsy (Epilepsy and Cerebral Localization; C. C. Thomas...
...carelessly worded message which could be misinterpreted could change the situation from good clean fun into something which would reflect badly upon the individual and the college. We ask your cooperation! Anne Wilder, Director Press Bureau, Mount Holyoke College...