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...urge to go to Washington seized him in 1934. It happened one night in a Chicago hotel. Milo Perkins sat down, wrote a letter to Henry Wallace, whom he had never met: "From childhood I have wanted to live in the world so that I could . . . leave it happier because I had worked in it. . . . I am going to throw my whole energies into working for the principles of the New Deal. . . . It occurs to me that you might have just the job for a man of my interests...
...Hildreth Caldwell, a Los Angeles obstetrician, said it had helped make honeymoons happier...
Moon Over Miami (20th Century-Fox) is a melancholy musical whose principals pass most of their Technicolored time between numbers bemoaning their poverty. It was happier three years ago as a movie called Three Blind Mice...
Drive-In is the invention* of Richard Milton Hollingshead Jr., a vigorous fellow of 41 who thinks the U.S. was much happier in the days when most people couldn't read. His concern, Park-In Theatres, Inc., headed by Cousin Warren Willis Smith, is collecting 5% of all the Drive-In Theaters' weekly gross. Vice president in charge of manufacturing of R. M. Hollingshead Corp., world's largest makers of automotive polishes, enamels, brake fluids, etc., Hollingshead worked out the Drive-in Theater idea by asking himself in the early days of the late depression what luxuries...
...rest of his intellectual, revolutionary friends. Back in 1916 in Petrograd, as a young lecturer, his ideas were well tinged with Utopian visions of a socialistic Russia. But his part in the "great experiment" was that played by so many moderates in so many revolutions, only with a happier ending. As he fed the Russian bear, it turned around and bit him. "In a revolution, power lies in the street for any one to pick up," he wrote in one of his innumerable books. He stepped into the street just long enough to pick up a job as Secretary...