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...Story of a Cheat (Serge Sandberg). A frowzy middle-aged gentleman sits down in a Paris café, orders a drink and begins to scribble in a notebook. As he writes, he reads aloud or chats, sometimes with the waiter, sometimes with his neighbors at nearby tables. Meanwhile, the screen unrolls aloud the narrative he is telling. It begins as the story of a little boy who was punished, for stealing five pennies, by not being allowed to have mushrooms for dinner. The mushrooms were poisonous toadstools and his whole family of eleven died that night from eating them...
Conceited, sure of his own ideas, fond of his own voice, he reads aloud everything he writes, wakes up friends to recite his poetry over the telephone. Impudent, he has mercilessly ridiculed the ideas of his superior, Chicago's metaphysical young President Robert Maynard Hutchins, made sport of his colleagues in the Legislature by speaking in allegories, in one of which Boss Kelly figured as a rat, Chicago's Health Commissioner Herman Bundesen as a mosquito. When an opponent praised him for his eloquence, he retorted: "Just liquid vowels." Ambitious, he won a big radio audience outside Illinois...
...Vagabond swore aloud as he suddenly discovered that he had written Albany, New York, in the space marked "College or Local Address...
...where he worked his way through, centred on the football scrubs) and Harvard Law School (where he led his class) was topped off by a year at the knee of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, great Liberal colleague of Ben Cohen's Brandeis. He used to read Greek classics aloud to the old gentleman, who followed him with an English trot to study the parsing. Dante and Montaigne were the young scholar's favorite writers. From those golden days he carried away a store of literary sparklers which today he sprinkles through Franklin Roosevelt's speeches. From Justice...
...when Newscaster Carter took the microphone for his final broadcast, he devoted his time to reading aloud, from Philosopher John Stuart Mill's essay Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion, excerpts relating to the evils of violating freedom of speech and the press. At the close of the broadcast, Commentator Carter turned from Philosopher Mill, said: "It is indeed, as the makers of Huskies and Post Toasties have said, as Erik Rolf so ably put it, it is considerably a matter of inability to find convenient time to meet the desires of General Foods that brings this series...