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...Chapel Hill, on the comely campus of University of North Carolina, dashing young South American caballeros last week politely lifted their hats to passing coeds and saluted them with the words: "Let's pitch a little woo." The coeds responded: "Hey" (North Carolinian for Hello). All in fun, the South Americans were busy practicing the promotion of hemisphere solidarity...
...woo-chest provided by Congress, President Pierson had lent almost $232,000,000 to Latin America. How much of this the Export-Import would see again was problematical. That U. S. manufacturers would benefit was certain. For Pierson had tied a string to most of the latest loans; with few exceptions, they provide that the money is to be spent in the U. S. Last week the exceptions began to cause trouble...
...dialog is as seasoned as the film's producer, Cecil B. DeMille, who was turning out its jerky ancestors in 1913. Veteran cinemaddicts will not be fooled into forgetting its parentage by either sound or Technicolor when they hear the half-breed Louvette (Paulette Goddard) woo the heroine's wayward brother (Robert Preston) with such primitive verbal caresses as: "I eat your heart out," or "My heart seeng lack a bird." When the shy Texas Ranger (Gary Cooper) casually rides his cayuse right into the heart of a pack of trouble in the north woods, the blonde heroine...
...post-depression history of the U. T. has been comparatively uneventful. Aside from some occasional woo-pitching in the balcony, and the universal gnashing of teeth at any appearance of Dick Powell or Robert Taylor, the management has had little to fret about. Vaudeville has gone and egg-throwing has become a national issue. Even the materialization of Ann Sheridan on the stage of the U. T. has become an unfulfilled memory...
...More Woo. Having reached at least the start of an understanding on trade with the U. S., Argentina also prepared last week to thrash out its problems with Great Britain. Owner of vast Argentine holdings, Great Britain is also Argentina's best single customer, hopes to remain so if for no other reason than to keep excess Argentine goods from Nazi Europe. Last week Britain announced that a diplomatic trade mission would tour the South American countries next month under 74-year-old Marquis Willingdon, former Viceroy of India, onetime cricket champion, reputedly the suavest and most able trouble...