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...told you so!" shouted Pastor's promoter, James J. Johnston, who had promised to explode the box-office prestige of his rival Promoter Mike Jacobs' Joe Louis. "Louis is a terrific hitter but he's not a great fighter. He can't hit a moving target. Pastor didn't fight him because he followed instructions to keep moving and keep out of Louis...
...Charleston with Governor Johnston of South Carolina and Mayor Maybank beside him he drove through two miles of cheering crowds to the Navy dock. There lay the fast cruiser Indianapolis, her rails lined with blue jackets at attention. Accompanied only by his son James, his son's friend Edward" Gallagher, his Military and Naval aides and White House physician, the President climbed the gangplank and was piped aboard. He ascended to the bridge, waved good-by and promised, "I'm going to have a good time...
There is one moment of real magic when Larry is singing So Do I, best of the John Burke-Arthur Johnston ballads, in a dim courtyard, strumming his lute, while Patsy revolves around him in a grotesquely graceful, childish dance. Screenwriter Jo Swerling, however, quickly dropped development of the Pennies from Heaven idea. He set his characters to making a haunted house into a night club, then switched to a carnival background, then to an orphan asylum. The thread on which the latter episodes are strung consists of Susan Sprague's (Madge Evans) efforts to put Patsy...
...days when Tilden, Johnston and Richards, first three in the world's tennis ranking, made the thought of serious rivalry for the Davis Cup an absurdity, the U. S. Men's Singles Championship was easily the equal of the All-England Championship at Wimbledon. This year the U. S. celebrated the tenth anniversary of its last Davis Cup victory by failing for the first time even to reach the final of the tournament* and the only chance that Forest Hills would supply the season's climax as well as its conclusion lay in the hope that...
...Oscar Johnston is the bulky, crinkle-eyed manager of the British-owned Delta & Pine Land Co.. whose 10,000-acre cotton plantation is the largest in the world. This year Mr. Johnston is getting 575 Ib. to the acre of "strict middling" cotton which he sells at a premium over the market price. He gets along well with his 3,000 Negroes, wants to keep them. Newshawks therefore crowded around him last week to hear what he thought of the mechanical menace. Grower Johnston was skeptical but not scornful...