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Describing the reign of terror in the U.S., Signor Tosi told how Axis citizens were jailed with common criminals, herded into concentration camps. Even women, he said, must suffer these outrages, "such is the fear that has gripped the soul of this psychologically childish people [of the U.S.]." Worst of all, the Italians in the camp at Missoula, Mont, are "watched by policemen, the majority of whom are Jews...
...celebrate the end of their childish resistance I now decree that the Fourth of July, known to them as Independence Day, shall be known henceforth as "Laugh at America Day." Let 24 hours of continuous laughter at their stupidity ring through our New World on that date. I myself shall be on the air in New York to lead you in that great laugh chorus...
...Steers has been a jumping freak since he was so high. As a ten-year-old Palo Alto schoolboy, he cleared the bar at 5 ft. 4 in. Spotted by Stanford's star-eyed Track Coach Dink Templeton, the little jumping jack had his style changed from the childish scissors to the Western roll (going over parallel with the bar). By the time he was an eighth-grader, young Steers could jump 6 ft. 2 in., competed with San Francisco's famed Olympic Club in big-time meets. As a high-school junior, he often cleared...
...petition was granted, but she will have to wait for a final OK until after July 20, when she'll be 21. K.T. is quite sure no other actress has been smart enough to use initials. She insists it was her own idea, but feels that the picture of childish absorption drawn by a rapt interviewer in the Chicago Daily News of June 7 is a slight exaggeration...
Money problems have not justified the University's differential treatment of Stage and Radio. Harkness had the money for a theatre. Nor does the argument hold that Harvard teaches only theory--for Baker, if this were true, never would have been allowed his "47 Workshop." It was childish to limit drama to the teaching of theory; it was extravagant to refuse the donation of an auditorium and lose the best dramatist of the day. But for the University to continue its stepfatherly treatment, and charge the Harvard Dramatic Club an average of two hundred dollars a production for ill-equipped...