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With the coming vacation offering an opportunity for them to brush up on their chips and drives, candidates for the golf team are preparing themselves for an arduous, seven-match season...
...ordinary assortment of Mack Gordon-Harry Warren tunes sung against a background of beautiful girls. Of the Brazilian characters, only the Baron's rival broker (J. Carrol Naish) has a trace of perfidy and that is gently masked. Since Miss Faye as the Baroness with a brush of Brooklyn in her accent prefers the Latin Don Ameche to the U. S. duplicate, and since the U S Ameche prefers Carmen Miranda, Pan-American attraction is adequately proved. That Night in Rio should convince Latins that the yanquis are trying to be good albeit slightly dreamy and gushing, neighbors...
Impatience with the Senate last week had finally risen to a clamor. Columnists, editorial writers, radiorators volleyed & thundered. The isolationists were cursed with bell, book and candle; Administration leaders were wigged and trimmed for their fumbling delay; cartoonists kept a brush in brine for the isolationist leader, Montana's Burton K. Wheeler...
...Banting was invited by a U. S. university to deliver a two-hour discourse on diabetes. "Hell," he observed, "for all I know about diabetes 15 minutes would be enough." He had known even less than that about it the October night in 1920 when he sat down to brush up for a lecture to students next day. He knew, of course, that a gland called the pancreas is involved. He read that a German named Langerhans had found in the pancreas little patches of specialized cells, called the islands of Langerhans, and that autopsies on diabetics showed that these...
...jail rather than pay a $2 fine for violation of what he considered an unreasonable parking regulation. He likes to be called Pancho (or even Don Pancho), sports a white Stetson and a buckskin watch fob. His father and grandfather before him were vaqueros of the south Texas brush country; in that country Dobie was born, 52 years ago. He spent his first 15 years in a ranch boy's intimacy with cattlemen and cattle handling, went on to college (Southwestern, Columbia) and to war. He spent 1920-21 as a ranch manager, the only white...