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...Army. The clerical job of looking into each man's possibilities would be a terrific undertaking, and the Army not only cannot do it but is not doing it. The Departments with relevant offerings are doing their utmost to train those who are willing to learn. But men who kid themselves into letting higher powers do their thinking for them are likely to end up scraping their cheeks and shoulders on the inside of a tank for $21 per month...
...tough West Side. When he was in the fourth grade, he hit his teacher "on the francis" with an eraser because she laughed at the way he spelled Philadelphia. When the truant officers found him, ten days later, he was sent to reform school. There he met an Irish kid named Frankie Madden, leader of the Itch Mob. Madden wised him up to the prize ring, persuaded him to become a fighter, let him pose as his kid brother. In 1917, after 131 fights. Battling Joe Madden quit the ring...
...clear to me that it was a British Spitfire, but it was not clear to them. They shot at it with machine guns until it was on the ground, and continued shooting as it taxied up. The plane taxied up to the line and a 19-year-old kid got out of the cockpit, walked over to the artillery commander, and said, 'I say, my good fellow, if this sort of thing continues, I shall have to report...
Bringing his own team and money with him, Hughes set to work on a story about Oklahoma Bandit Billy the Kid, to be called The Outlaw, to star veteran Actor Walter Huston. No sooner was the shock of this major change absorbed than Fox delivered another, announced that a second independent unit had been signed to furnish two more pictures a year. Backbone of this addition were Stars Charles Boyer, Irene Dunne, Ronald Colman, Directors Lewis Milestone (Of Mice and Men), Anatole Litvak (All This and Heaven...
Married. Ethel Merman, 31, trumpet-voiced star of Panama Hattie and half-a-dozen earlier Broadway musicomedy hits; and William B. Smith, 39, a Hollywood actor's agent; between shows; in Elkton, Md. Neither had been married before. Roared Musicomedienne Merman: "Kid, love is wonderful...