Word: kidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kid in short pants, James E. Glynn used to shunt wooden blocks across the kitchen floor and make believe he was turning the big wheels of commerce. But when he had to go to work right after grammar school as an extra hand on the New York Central Railroad, he began to feel that his dream would never come true; a guy could never be a big-shot transportation executive without a college degree...
...presidential DC-6 Independence, was immediately hustled off in a long, gleaming motorcade to inspect automobile plants. At the Cadillac factory he asked final-assembly workers so many questions that cars began coming off the end of the line unfinished. He also appeared at two more dinners, greeted his kid brother Mahmoud, a tall, handsome senior at the University of Michigan, and startled a reporter who asked him what he thought of American women. "I see many of them in the streets," he said in puzzled tones, "but I don't see many pregnant...
...morning shot of Cathy purring glamorously in bed, do they act in tried and untrue Hollywood style. As usual in a cross-country chase, the movie spots its young folks in a grubby motel, a Greyhound bus and a cabaret, but They Live by Night handles them with realistic kid gloves. Cathy sometimes combs a too-pretty hairdo, but mostly the pair act like nice, believable high-school kids...
...small part in a western movie at first? Wouldn't they spot Artie Biggs for a surefire Roy Rogers when they saw his lightning draw and heard him sing the way he sang at Manhattan's St. Vincent Ferrer's school? Why should a kid with his talents stew through fourth grade, take Skippy and Lady out for their walks every night and waste away his life in a 66th Street flat-when Hollywood was right there, waiting...
...Philadelphia railroad sta tion a few weeks ago, an autograph-hunting youngster asked George Preston Marshall : "Are you the coach?" Owner Marshall, whose Washington Redskins (once top-rankers in the National Professional Foot ball League) had just taken a 49-10-14 drubbing from the Philadelphia Eagles, brushed the kid .off with two cryptic words: "Not today." It was quite an admission for the volatile, self-styled genius who sometimes hired coaches to run his team, supercoaches to run the coaches-and then ran the whole thing himself...