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Chicago Tax Shark. Star of the performance was Quiz Kid Kupperman of Chicago, a pale, sturdy, brown-eyed six-year-old who spoke somewhat juicily, thanks to a natural lisp and the recent shedding of three teeth. He had no trouble figuring the normal tax on $2,650 without pencil or paper. He also volunteered the belief that the United Nations were sure to win the war because he had so many friends and relatives...
...teachers are his boss, benevolently eccentric Tom Spangler (James Craig), and old Grogan (Frank Morgan) the telegrapher, who drinks every night to forget the sad messages that come over his wire. Freckled, four-year-old Ulysses (Jack Jenkins), called "Useless" for short by his playmates, is Homer's kid brother. He constantly asks unanswerable questions, learns about life from such simple but significant incidents as a Negro's friendly wave from a passing freight train. Other Macauleys: Mother (Fay Bainter), Sister Bess (Donna Reed), who goes to college, and Brother Marcus (Van Johnson), who is in the Army...
...Haven Railroad's famed "The Kid in Upper 4." In simple but stirring rhetoric it made readers understand why trains are crowded-because The Kid, a soldier, is "our most honored guest...
...school figures (which count 60% in determining a champion), meticulous Miss Merrill, letter-perfect at such difficult tracings as the loop-change-loop and bracket-change-bracket, had a big edge on the kid from The Bronx. In the free skating (five minutes of self-selected routines skated to music) the little gosling ran circles around the whole field. When the counts of the five judges were finally tabulated, they added up to victory for Miss Merrill-with 2,749.12 points to Miss Goos...
...Billy the Kid, young Buetel acts like a high-school second lead. Walter Huston does perhaps his greatest acting, not a little of which lies in his ability to convey to the audience that he thinks the whole thing is impossibly bad. Thomas Mitchell's friends were sorry...