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In his brief stay at Harvard, Held has found other causes for grudge. "The first day I was here the reporters quoted me as branding glamor girls 'the synthetic best that a few rather addle-witted movie press agents produced for the night club columnists.' Actually I don't give...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Harried By Horrid Hoaxes John Held Holds | 2/20/1940 | See Source »

Favorite artist to collegians of the '203 was John Held Jr., who gave the flapper a vogue. Appointed to be artist-in-residence at Harvard, he announced: 1) he didn't know what he was supposed to do, 2) the flapper's modern successor, the glamor girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 19, 1940 | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

His first four stories are ancient history; 1) a martyred pathfinder, before 7000 B.C. prototype of Osiris, of Jesus, of the Artist; 2) a dim-witted burglar vivisected by Alexandrian scientists (Result: "We have now proved . . . that the arteries circulate air to the body from the lungs. ... It makes a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Handbook of Bondage | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

This time Lon Chancy Jr. (in his first big role) is hulking, dim-witted Lennie, who looks like a moronic Mr. Deeds, has a well-meant, heavy-handed way of stroking puppies, mice and young women into rigor mortis. Actor Burgess Meredith is George, Lennie's somewhat brighter brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 15, 1940 | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

>To give devilish-witted Prof. Thomas Reed Powell his just due, the crack originated thus: Justice Holmes (reading decision): "Three generations of imbeciles are enough." Prof. Powell (adding thereto in the Virginia Law Review, June 1931): "Mr. Justice Butler dissents."-ED.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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