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...Though a baby is a potential human being, its nervous system is so complex that it becomes a human being only through association with other people in its earliest years...
...Selective Service office found a way out of this mare's-nest. Brigadier General Lewis B. Hershey, the deputy director of Selective Service, solemnly issued a ruling that women could indeed be appointed to draft advisory boards. These boards (usually three male lawyers) help registrants to fill out complex questionnaires, tell draftees about their rights and duties. Pay: none, except in women's rights...
...Mind of the South is not an "authoritative" book. It is laden rather with personal intelligence than with documented information. It is by no means complete; the whole ugly and fascinating complex of problems surrounding the Negro, for example, is never examined headon. But Cash is honest, temperate, eloquent and kind, and he is definitely in command of his subject. Anything written about the South henceforth must start where he leaves...
What makes High Sierra something more than a Grade B melodrama is its sensitive delineation of Gangster Earle's character. Superbly played by Actor Bogart, Earle is a complex human being, a farmer boy who turned mobster, a gunman with a string of murders on his record who still is shocked when newsmen call him "Mad-Dog" Earle. He is kind to the mongrel dog (Zero) that travels with him, befriends a taxi dancer (Ida Lupino) who becomes his moll, goes out of his way to help a crippled girl (Joan Leslie). All Roy Earle wants is freedom...
...Martha Scott, who once expected to a teacher, got her A.B. in 1934 at the University of Michigan, Miss Bishop is no unfamiliar story. Born in Jamesport, Mo. (pop. 761), daughter of an electrical engineer, Martha took up dramatics in high school to get over an inferiority complex After college she worked awhile in a department store at $11.50 a week, finally got a job in Detroit's civic repertory theatre, moved on to Manhattan. She belongs to the "sensible" school of Hollywood actresses, dresses sloppily in slacks and checked blouse, drives her own Buick convertible, stays away from...