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...tell him that he ought to be working in a blacksmith shop or a factory. It is true that he often succeeds in obtaining a degree, but he would be just as well off without it. He is the one who has caught education but, having caught it, doesn't know what to do with it. He cannot make it serve any useful purpose. It is unfortunate, of course, that the cost of going to college has followed the cost of living in its upward flight. But even now there is nothing in the situation to discourage the poor...
...system while hunting for his dog "Harold" (shown in the movies before the curtain rises). The flattery of the delegation which meets him quite goes to Bill's head, in spite of the fact that he is disappointed when he learns it is from the mayor," as he doesn't "want anything more to do with horses." Fortunately Mable isn't neglected for long, and the audience is spared wasting sympathy over there plight, because a naval aviator, Jack Wing, keeps here from getting lonely while Gwendolyn, the step-daughter of the rich Mrs. Pettigrew, is pursuing Bill...
...other hand, Hoover is a constructive worker. He has his eye on the job, and he doesn't deal in platitudes. He takes concrete measures for betterment. He is no mere theorist, no mere social worker who might be led astray by fine ideals, for he is a man who is accustomed to dealing with the great men of the world...
...Finally, he doesn't create enemies. He gets things done without creating opposition or antagonizing people. In short he hasn't Mr. Wilson's stiff-necked belief that he alone can accomplish things...
...prize-winning story, for the last. One feels like saying, "Who is this man--what?" and "all that sort of thing." It is easy enough to prattle admiration or censure from the easy chair. Perhaps it might be best summed up by saying that if Mr. Leys' farce doesn't sell out this number then Cambridge doesn't recognize its own true genius--in humor at least. If in judging the stories submitted a fairminded judge had seen "Spiking Spicer" first, no one--else--the rest is death--what? Certainly not an intellectual number (the Reviewer didn...