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Playing opposite him is Jean Muir in the part of a beautiful nurse, imbued with common sense and an instinct for decency. Like a well-manipulated puppet, she passively fits in with Mr. William's style, doing just the right thing at just the right time with an unremitting, process regularity that is perfectly in tune. She is the propelling force behind the plot; it is she who turns the action to its elevation of minded suspense and pessimistic hope; but this is all lost again in the triteness of the closing scenes. The supporting cast is, moreover, excellent...
...charge of a committee to study possible Exchange regulations. The committee's report, turned in last January, recommended regulation of a moderate character through a special Federal body. Sagely Mr. Dickinson's committee said: "It must always be recognized that the average man has an inherent instinct for gambling. ... If abolished in one form, it seems always to crop out in another." Like Adolf Augustus Berle Jr.. John Dickinson was a child prodigy. Graduated from Johns Hopkins at 19, he has been associated with Princeton, where he got his doctorate and later taught, and Harvard, where...
...star in one sport with practice can become an exceptionally good player in any game except football," said William Tilden in a CRIMSON interview yesterday. "Every sport requires a certain handling of the body and instinct which an athlete can soon learn to acquire. Football, however, also requires a rugged physique which is not necessary in games like tennis, squash, and baseball...
...principle of good tennis, Tilden believes the first rule is never give your opponent the shot he likes to play. As a rule in tennis, the man who depends upon headwork will defeat a man who plays by natural instinct alone. When his game is off, he has another resource to fall back upon, whereas the natural athlete...
...well as their bad points and rather than abolish them by law the stock exchange authority should try to prevent their misuse. 4) Stricter margin requirements should be imposed to prevent excessive speculation. Said the report : "It must always be recognized that the average man has an inherent instinct for gambling. ... If abolished in one form it seems always to crop out in another. In America the man of average income has, perhaps, turned to the stock exchange because of the prohibition of various forms of gambling. If the speculative tendencies of our people could be turned into other channels...