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...Whether because of the fan and exhibitor furor about his C.O. status, or because of his 22 months Pacific service as a noncombatant Medical Corps sergeant and chaplain's assistant, the Ayres face and screen personality have undergone a startling change. With little remaining resemblance to the confused kid of All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), or even to brash young Dr. Kildare, Actor Ayres now looks and acts every one of his 37 years...
...care what you were before you got here--you're Dartmouth freshmen, kin to the worm, now, and will be treated as such. Consider what's coming an honor, an undergraduate equivalent of matriculation, a sign of acceptance into the Dartmouth community. If you still think it's kid stuff, far, far beneath your mature dignity, remember this: Dartmouth was run that way before you were thought of, will be run that way after you're dead. If you don't like it, what the hell are you here...
...Count had a pat explanation for his stockpile of dollars. He said he had been a bootlegger in the U.S. during Prohibition, and was known as "Kid Tiger" (or was it "The Frog...
Moriarty fought the war in the South Pacific. He went to Germany last spring. Said he: "I saw kids in the streets picking up cigaret butts and begging. They all looked hungry, backward, scared. You know, they got an awfully dirty deal in this war; never had anything to look forward to. Me, I lost a redheaded kid brother, and I looked at these kids and at our job over here, and, by God, I don't ever want to think he died in vain. So I decided to do something...
...events-or as good as real events-which no one before him has really been able to fathom. Thomas Mann, in his wisdom, makes no such claim for his great and subtle Biblical Joseph and His Brothers. But in King Jesus Robert Graves, bright and solemn as a Quiz Kid, again implies that he has at last discovered the "valid explanation"-this time of the New Testament story...