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Denver's Champa Street shrilled one day last week with the din of hundreds of urchins pushing their way to the front of the Denver Post building. At the head of the line each youngster was given two ice cream cones, a handful of cakes, a hearty invitation to come up the line again for more. This was the Post's Annual Free Ice Cream & Cake Party for Denver's children. The Post that day front-paged hot weather reports from other parts of the U. S. under the big, black headline: COLORADO IS COOLER. ... It announced...
...believe heart & soul in the wisdom and feasibility of its manifold purposes. For chairman President Roosevelt promptly appointed Arthur Ernest Morgan, 55, president of Ohio's Antioch ("Work& Study") College. An engineer of much experience, Chairman Morgan has been fascinated by water and its uses since as a youngster he roved the Minnesota prairie. He wrote the Minnesota and Arkansas drainage codes, helped with those of Mississippi, Ohio, Colorado and New Mexico. He tamed the wild Miami River after it had flooded Dayton in 1913. Since 1920 he has built Antioch College up from an obscure experiment...
...Pangborn's] experience and skill he found himself, upon his return to America, merely the co-pilot of an inexperienced youngster named Herndon. . . . It was clearly understood [at the start] that Pangborn was to be the pilot and that Herndon was to be a sort of glorified passenger and relief pilot if the occasion warranted. ... As a professional flyer I have no more sympathy with a Herndon who will deliberately convert a scientific undertaking into a personal publicity stunt, than I have with a Hutchinson [George R. Hutchinson, father of the 'Flying Family' which cracked...
From the truck a greasy hubcap was unscrewed, clapped down on his head. "That's his crown!" crowed some youngster. Oily slime ran down the judge's face. His tormentors threw dirt at him which stuck to the grease...
...Parachute Jumper" concerns a smuggling ring. Although the plot is inane, and although the dialogue is filled with Minsky wisecracks, it may amuse the non-critical. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., is the noble youngster who will fly licuor across the Canadian border, but when he finds that he has been unknowingly carrying dope in the plane, he thinks of the children who will be corrupted, of mothers, and especially of a ten year jail sentence. Bette Davis as the heroine acts as well as ever, and as seductively. She will fade even more rapidly than Marlene Dietrich if the directors persist...