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...Julius Caesar, Lord Byron, Columbus, Socrates, Lincoln, Mussolini, P. T. Barnum, Michelangelo, Clark Gable, et al. *To date, Snow White (cost: $1,300,000) has grossed a healthy $7,157,000; Pinocchio is $300,000 shy of its $2,500,000 investment; The Reluctant Dragon has earned a little more than a third of its $686,000 production cost; Fantasia, scheduled for general release soon, is within $500,000 of paying for itself...
That will not be easy. Though he has depleted the forces arrayed against him, Admiral Yamamoto knows that his enemies are still great, that their regenerative powers may soon seem (compared to Japan's) as formidable as those of the mythical dragon which, when his tail was cut off, grew not only a new tail on his body but a new body on his tail...
...Government, out to slay a Fascist dragon, still had enough time to pop at field mice. In a Minneapolis courtroom the Department of Justice triumphantly snagged a nestful of mice: 18 Trotskyites convicted of advocating the overthrow of the Government. Only hope for the mice was in an appeal. They vowed they would take their squeaking case all the way to the Supreme Court...
...such dragon as Dr. Thomas is Katharine McBride. Tall, low-voiced, self-effacing, Miss McBride is a quiet research scholar in neurology. She got three degrees at Bryn Mawr (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.), steps up to Bryn Mawr's presidency from the deanship of Radcliffe. But from Bryn Mawr, Dr. Thomas and Dr. Park, Miss McBride acquired a profound respect for scholarship. Said she last week: "One of the things I like best about Bryn Mawr is that they expect scholarly work of the students. . . . [Such] students . . . seem much better equipped . . to live in a world of changes like this...
...Bulldog, and except for the ten thousand or so men of Harvard, the entire nation, or that part of it that is aware of the game, will be rooting for the spiritual descendants of that Merriwell man. Nobody loves us except ourselves. We are the team to beat, the dragon for St. George to kill, the Persians to be turned back at Thermopylae...