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...famed frog of Mark Twain's story, who could "get over more ground at one straddle than any animal of his breed you ever see," lost to another freshly caught frog when the rival owner filled Dan'l full of quail shot "pretty near up to his chin...
...Fuller Brush Man (Columbia), an eager boob played by Red Skelton, attracts trouble as infallibly as he repels sales prospects. When one of the latter is murdered, Red is suspected. He spends the rest of the picture chin-deep in gunmen, detectives and pretty girls. One of the girls, Janet Blair, is about the prettiest sweater model in movies; Skelton, given half a chance, can be quite funny; the scripters have given him better-than-average chances...
...Alabama's Democratic primary voters unseated two Congressmen-Pete Jarman and Carter Manasco-and landed a one-two punch to Harry Truman's chin. The front-runners in the race for Alabama's eleven presidential electors were all pledged to vote against Harry Truman or any civil-rights nominee. Of the leaders in the scramble for Alabama's 26 Democratic convention seats, virtually all were opposed to Truman's renomination, 13 were pledged to bolt the convention if a civil-rights plank were adopted...
Dogged Line. The speeches written for him by smart, genial young Lew Frank Jr., a onetime New Republic staffer, cleaved more & more shamelessly to the Communist line. He delivered them doggedly, chin buried between his shoulders, his mouth turned down at the corners. He attacked the "oil trusts," the U.S. policy of "intimidation"; he charged: "We are guilty of almost every charge we level at the Russians." At Iowa City he demanded a meeting between the next President and Stalin, adding: "Roosevelt always said he could do business with Stalin. That's what he often told me personally...
Harvard will take it on the chin financially if Congress passes the draft, and only a new jump in tuition and rent will pull...