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...pitiful sight of Hollywood attempting a classic of character and turning out a turgid Grade B pot-boiler is now on view for the second week at the Keith Memorial in "Primrose Path." Unoriginal in conception, dull--often interminable--in pace and direction, it tells the story of a sweet young thing (Ginger Rogers) caught in the sordid atmosphere created by a prostitute-mother, a constantly drunken father, and an incredibly cruel grandmother. Falling in love with Joel McCrea because he nearly kills her by reckless driving, she conceals her true identity, has the usual misunderstandings, and emerges happy ever...
...very likely that tell-tale glibness and vague answers to specific questions will betray students who have not done their own work. This method of detection has already proved successful in History 1, and it is probable that the previous penalty of a cut in the paper's grade will be stiffened...
...grades of the four in 34 different maneuvers were "way above normal," according to H. E. Martin, manager of the airport. A grade of 70 is considered average, whereas they all rated higher than 80. Dennison instructors affirmed that the Crimson fledglings, with 35 to 40 hours of training, did better than candidates for transport licenses on the same day who had more than 200 flying hours behind them...
Grey-haired Martin D. Wilson, a conductor on the Burlington, off duty, was motoring home alone with two geese, two turkeys, two hams last December. At a Richland, Neb. grade crossing he was surprised by a Union Pacific express. Pulling diagonally across the tracks, Conductor Wilson caught his left front wheel between rails, stalled, leaped out, fled. He was safe when the train, doing 70, smacked the auto and left the rails, derailing eight cars, tearing up 300 feet of track, killing the engineer and fireman...
...Daniels put up at the St. Botolph Club in Boston for well-preserved cultural atmosphere. Shivering in a New Hampshire April, he talked to tough farmers and foresters about the Government's work in timber salvage, learned that New England produces less than a fourth as much high-grade timber as it could and should. In Concord, N. H., he watched the State Legislature in session ("the people themselves seemed to have come to Concord, and they looked poor as the land from which many of them came...