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Chin-rubbing Wally Berry appears in "The Man From Dakota" as co-feature. For those who are fond of Mr. Berry and his chin-rubbing, this will prove moderately enjoyable. Delores del Rio is also in the picture...
...speech in Kansas City, he denounced fixed charges in favor of equity dividends. To make his point he invoked the following authorities: Aristotle, Lactantius, St. Luke, St. Basil, St. Chrysostom, St. Ambrose, St. Thomas Aquinas, Dante, Calvin, Cotton Mather, Andrew D. White, Chesterton, Will Rogers. Fond of parties, he holds his cigaret between his teeth, dominates the room with talk. Regularly he falls asleep at 10 p.m., wakes at 11:30, talking. A lover of word games, playful mental feats, he is often to be found contorted on the floor, acting out some far-fetched pun.* Battling with a fellow...
...political situation is such that Jeff runs a fair chance of losing his job whether he lies low or takes action. Worse still, a Negro named Sam Brinson, of whom Jeff is very fond, has been grabbed out of jail to be scapegoat if Sonny is not found. Jeff is reasonably sure Sonny is innocent; he knows Sam is. That he will sacrifice Sonny's life to his own political safety is, of course, a mere regretful reflex; at the same time he tries to find Sam at the risk...
...Augustine, Fla. is proud of being the oldest city in the U. S. It is also proud of having in its ancient vicinity one of Florida's newest and most successful tourist-getters: the big Marineland aquarium recently built 18 miles to the south of it. It is fond of broadcasting superlatives about Marineland's two tanks (of steel, concrete, tile, brick and cement), the biggest and deepest aquarium tanks in the world, the only aquarium cleaned by divers with vacuum cleaners, the only one where some animals are fed under water by hand, the only one where...
...science classes at School Street Elementary School, in Westbury, L. I., pupils study live mice, rabbits, ducks, chicks. They are fond of their pets. One day last October, they got a ten-pound Poland China shoat, six weeks old. Three hundred science pupils took a vote, decided to nickname him Fat Stuff. They made him a nice clean pen with a big trough, running water and a straw bed. They watched him get three vaccinations against hog diseases. They took delight in feeding him tidbits, fed him so well that in three months he grew to 120 pounds...