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...there were even worse dangers than falling bombs. London's compulsory education system, had practically broken down. Though the London County Council sent truant officers after parents and children alike, the average daily school attendance was only 26,000. Half of London's grade schools had been battered into rubble or commandeered for other uses. The 365 still open carried on with fewer hours of schooling, in crowded classrooms, their lessons punctuated by air-raid warnings...
...party" is a New York institution. So is Joe Madden. Born Joseph Augustin Penzo, son of an Italian baker "who was O.K. except all his life he never possessed change of a quarter," Joe grew up on Manhattan's tough West Side. When he was in the fourth grade, he hit his teacher "on the francis" with an eraser because she laughed at the way he spelled Philadelphia. When the truant officers found him, ten days later, he was sent to reform school. There he met an Irish kid named Frankie Madden, leader of the Itch Mob. Madden wised...
...manufactured by J. M. Cohen of Potomac Chemical Co., Tectyl does two things: 1) separates salt water from steel, 2) forms an oily, protective coating on the metal. It is electromagnetically attracted to steel and other electrically conducting metals, forms what are called polar films. There are four grades corresponding to film thicknesses ranging from .0002 to .0008 inch. The lightest Tectyl (thinnest film) can be used for cleaning machines of oil and dust, leaves a temporary lubricating and protective layer. The heaviest grade provides longtime protection for metals exposed to weathering...
...boudoir-of-Mac-West scene like that which marked the peak of "My Little Chickadee." Closest to a really uproarious sequence is the capture of bank bandits Repulsive Grogan and Filthy McSnatch by the paunchy recluse of the Black Pussy Cafe. Thereby W.C. becomes local constable and straight Grade B Mack Sennett horseplay drags on and on. Saloon melees and a frantic automobile pursuit over mountain goat paths give the bulbous-nosed comedian a chance to display all his old along with a very few new tricks...
...Frannie Powers, Lonnie Stowell, and Dave Stearns as Varsity holdovers. Pete Robinson, Bob Sceery, Tom Godfrey, Walt Downing and Tom Shrewsbury may help out the situation somewhat, but it will take time to bring most of them up to Eastern intercollegiate League standards. IIf none of them make the grade, the jobs may be appropriated by the above-mentioned white or backstroker Dick Harris...