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Dick Bissell, 37, is now the manager of a clothing factory in Dubuque and a settled citizen, but for a while he had river fever as bad as Huck Finn ever...
Though Arthur Godfrey believes, as did Mark Twain, that half the art of American humor consists in keeping your face straight, he scores heavily with the precision mugging of his Huck Finn features. He is a master of the mildly distasteful grimace, the quizzical brow, the shrug of simulated incomprehension. His personality has elements of other U.S. entertainers who have won a peculiarly affectionate place in American hearts. Like Will Rogers, Godfrey is the embodiment of the homespun debunker; but where Will fired salvos at Congress, Godfrey snipes at the lesser game of admen and pressagents. Like Bing Crosby...
...bidder for self-improvement this year is Finland. Long worried about their manners, particularly the knife-brandishing belligerence of Finnish drunks, the Finns last month stepped up their courtesy campaign. Run by the serious "Citizens' Good Behavior Organization," the drive is aimed at making "the common Finn a gentleman" in time for the Olympic Games in 1952. In addition, Finland has decided on an anti-gluttony campaign. Insurance company surveys show that during the food-short war years, the people were healthier than before. But Finns have not taken the hint. Said Tailor Eirik Dronstedt, who has been busy...
Elmer Madar, who scouted Brown Saturday with Henry Lamar, reports that the Bruins are considerably improved over last year. Though the graduation of Ed Finn has weakened them in the passing department, Brown has a much smoother running attack and has added many plays to its winged-T repertoire...
...these and other bits & pieces of fact began to fill in the pattern of Dennis' life, other TIME bureaus were put to work investigating the important new leads that kept turning up. In New York, Miss Finn turned up the exact address of Waldron-Dennis' stepmother in Southern California, where James Murray, of our Los Angeles bureau, located her. A tip from Washington (about a phony name Dennis had used on a passport) was relayed (with a picture of Dennis) to TIME Inc.'s Tokyo bureau, which turned up the story of his activities...