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...Hero of Booth Tarkington's Seventeen...
Seventeen (Paramount). In the 24 years since young Jack Pickford played Willie Baxter in the silent screen version of Seventeen, cinemaddicts forgot how much charm there is in that classic of calf love on Main Street. Booth Tarkington's novel is scarcely a generation old, but the folkways Seventeen describes, the gawky naturalness of most of its young people, the tolerant humor and humanity with which its adults are able to straighten out youth's scrapes, make it seem like something from the far past. Members of the American Youth Congress may not like it. But if they...
...distribution throughout the land it published a series of posters designed to make talkative Britons "tongue conscious." They show a furtive, ubiquitous little Adolf Hit ler, pencil & paper in hand, listening in to British conversations everywhere: curled up under a bus seat, in a luggage rack, against a telephone booth, under a restaurant table...
...Gene Tunney retired as heavyweight champion of the world in 1928. Featherweight Millard Hopper, at 43, is still going strong as unrestricted ("go-as-you-please"*) checker champion of the U. S. Last summer at the New York World's Fair he set up a booth, took on all comers, sometimes a dozen at a time, played some 5,000 games, lost three...
Millard Hopper became champion by 1) studying with Christy Mathewson, as slick a checker player as he was a pitcher, 2) running a checker booth at Coney Island and manning the Eden Musee automaton, 3) beating Alfred Jordan, go-as-you-please champion of Great Britain...