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...niblick while tap-dancing furiously. Rogers eats too many rarebits and dreams she is dancing with her handsome doctor in slow motion. At a country club dance, Astaire and Rogers startle the patrons by dancing the Yam, no more senseless than the Big Apple, but suffering from the same fault as the out-of-date Carioca and Continental : it looks too hard for the general public and too easy for Astaire and Rogers. Astaire at last drops all pretense of being a psychiatrist and hypnotizes Ginger by the plain old-fashioned method of waggling his fingers; whereupon they dance once...
Last week, My Days,-* an unclouded selection from Mrs. Roosevelt's columns, appeared in book form. Since her first column, on Dec. 30, 1935, she has not missed a day, even when she was ill with influenza. On only three occasions, none of them Mrs. Roosevelt's fault, did her copy reach United Feature Syndicate's office late. It is written the day it is sent in, appears in most newspapers next day. United Feature confines its editing to facts and grammatical construction, never touches her opinions. Mrs. Roosevelt gets about $10,000 a year from United...
...Schizoidmaniacism, but John William Warde, standing at the brink of death was just a peeved little boy. And like any severely spanked little boy, wanting sympathy, he took the colossal modern manner of calling attention to his troubles. That he should carry out his grand gesture, is the fault of the City Fathers who turned this little-boy prank into a three-ring circus, by roping off the streets and permitting photographers to lie untrampled on their backs, instead of keeping lanes open and business functioning as usual. Newspapers and national broadcasters screamed invitations to all and sundry to come...
...also a subject demanding exceptional talent. Thus, although family novels are among the most plentiful, a really good one-a Buddenbrooks or a Forsyte Saga-is rare. Run-of-the-mine family novels are likely to hold more interest for fellow members of the family than for strangers -a fault which is sometimes due to the fact that the family is dull, more often due to a writer's family discretion...
Weighing 250 lb., a hard-driving man with unaccountable periods of complete inertia, Crocker was in charge of the actual construction of the Central Pacific, boasted that he found fault with everything and that everybody was afraid of him. But on payday he rode through the construction crews with 150 lb. of gold and silver, paid workmen himself. Because he admired the endurance of his Chinese cook, he favored Chinese crews over his partners' objections. When the Central Pacific was stopped by wild mountain country (during 1866 only 28 miles of track were laid), the rival Union Pacific...