Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, about world's series time fall run a feature story on the Chicago White Sox with a picture of Luke Appling on the front cover as the sensation of the year, and had they in that story printed a mere paragraph or two stating that this wonder team had been edged for the pennant by the Yankees and that one Joe Di Maggio had a slight lead over Appling for batting honors, it would have been hardly less accurate than this week's surprising appraisal of the New York Rangers as hockey's most newsworthy outfit...
...finishing Fools for Scandal, Producer LeRoy, a son-in-law of Triumvir Harry M. Warner, left the family plot for a production berth at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, safe from barbed thrusts about nepotism. Sawed-off, narrow-eyed, cigar-waving Producer LeRoy is still hailed, at 37, as the Boy Wonder. At five he fell three stories in the San Francisco earthquake, landed unhurt on a mattress. At nine, engaged at $2.50 a week in a stage production of Barbara Frietchie to watch for the Rebels from a prop tree, he fell out of the tree, got a raise because audiences...
However, Harvard's wonder, the armless Joe Sockit, demonstrated the remarkable feat of running up a championship record with his toes. It was reported that Hoyden's marvel, Purple O'Malley, was a ringer, and that she arrived for the Harvard game after playing in a professional contest...
What with newspaper ads, glittering marquees, and huge neon signs hung out on Boston's drab skyline, people are beginning to wonder about this "Proven Pictures" outfit. The thing started five years ago, when some enterprising gentleman bought up George M. Cohan's old Tremont, installed projectors, and asked the people what they wanted to see. Letters started coming in and now they average over a thousand a week. Just to check up on the proletariat's taste, the Tremont got a New York clipping bureau to send them leading newspaper reviews. When the people say please, and the critics...
After the book is laid aside, the ideal of a genial and utterly proficient doctor remains in mind. The kindliness and unselfishness of his long career make us wonder whether such a man will be able to find his place in the bureaucracy which seems inevitable in government public health. The question immediately arises as to whether this ideal of the country doctor can survive that trend...