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...Connecticut, unPurged Senator Augustine Lonergan was renominated with Governor Wilbur L. ("Uncle Toby") Cross by convening Democrats. Republicans named John A. Danaher for Senator, Raymond E. Baldwin for Governor, and to give their ticket some of Mr. Cross's scholarly background (he was for 14 years dean of Yale's Graduate School), chose President James L. McConaughy of Wesleyan University for lieutenant-governor...
...Georgetown University School of Medicine said that he is starting an agency for proxy fathers in Washington. Blonds, brunets, redheads, Jews, Catholics and Protestants will be on the list, he said, and a prospective mother can have her child influenced in every physical respect except sex. Heredity and background of all candidates are thoroughly investigated. Since the human male attains his highest fertility during his twenties, Dr. Pelzman's present list of 15 is drawn mostly from medical students and interns who are glad to get the $25 fee per insemination. Operation of the bureau will be very simple...
...which Vermeer could only have seen in Rome as a young man. This and the head of Christ which is evidently based on the head in Leonardo da Vinci's famed Last Supper are strong evidences that Vermeer studied in Italy. The wine-jug, the girl in the background, and the young man who posed for both the male disciples were all used in well-known later paintings. Characteristic of Vermeer are the stiffly-painted garments and the delicate colors, lemon yellow and pearl grey, setting off the deep blue of Christ's robe. Dutch visitors, who like...
...Asadata Dafora Horton, whose Kykunkor got rave notices from Broadway critics in 1934. Primitive in plot, Zunguru was a kind of savage vaudeville, with three blacks pounding African drums, brown girls strutting their stuff, a witch doctor gabbling and shrieking, a fire-eater munching lighted torches-all of it "background" for Boy Meets Girl in Senegal...
...naturally found in Boys Town cinematerial well up to the standard of that supplied by the Russell-Cotes naval training institution in England. The result, in this picture, is a companion piece to Lord Jeff, with Mickey Rooney replacing Freddie Bartholomew as the urchin who eventually conquers a criminal background to become a credit to his school...