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Wrote William Andrew Me Andrew: "Norman Rockwell, erstwhile giver of delight by his depiction of lovable and quaint rugged individualists, took the Evening Post's money to do this ulcerous thing. . . . No decent allegiance to the American ideals of education, as formulated by Washington, Franklin and other founders of the nation . . . can be maintained if public prints throw disrespect on education and on women. The cartoonists drawing teachers depict pretty women, now. The Saturday Evening Post's bad break is probably a relapse, a case of atavism, a recollection by some unhappy old man who told Rockwell what...
...When the Cubs protested. Umpire Moriarty retaliated by roundly abusing the whole team, ordering Manager Charles Grimm off the field. After the game Manager Grimm made the remark that came closest to being the 1935 World Series classic: "If a manager can't go out and make a decent kick, what the hell is the game coming to? I didn't swear at him but he swore at us." Said Coach John Corriden: ''He was guilty of antagonizing and demoralizing our ball club. . . ." Coach Roy Johnson accused Umpire Moriarty of making improper reflections on the Cubs...
...released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1927, was distinguished by an exhibit of passionate eye-rolling unmatched by anything in his later career on the part of John Gilbert. For these features, the current edition substitutes a thoroughly sane characterization of the hero by Fredric March and a decent, if not altogether unwavering, respect for the intentions of its original. The second and third versions of Anna Karenina still have two important things in common. These are a superb portrayal of Anna by Greta Garbo and a story which, like many masterpieces of the world's literature, could scarcely have...
...Trade & Commerce. Last week with elections scarcely two months off, Henry Herbert Stevens at last announced that he was prepared to challenge Canada's two old guard parties, the Conservatives and the Liberals, with a new one. Name: Reconstruction Party. Motto: "CANADA CAN and Canada will provide a decent standard of living for every person willing to work...
...Southern life. Indeed, Author Rylee finds the central motive for Mary's persistent effort to free Mose, for Rutherford's brief acceptance of his social responsibility, in their profound love of the South and their hatred of those who would dishonor it. Passionately Mary denounces the decent people of Clarksville for their acquiescence to such crimes as the framing of Mose. Yet she finds that many who avoided her during the trial congratulate her for her courage after her defeat, discovers among her neighbors many who feel as she does but who shamefacedly keep silent, fearing public opinion...