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Thomas Edmund Dewey was too young, said the experts: a not-so-nice kid too big for his breeches; cocky, inexperienced both in politics and statesmanship -a ball of fire in New York, maybe, but just a city dude out where...
...wobbly hunk of rhythm. Now, however His Highness has stepped into the market and returned with several juicy chunks of swing--namely Chu Berry on tenor sax, Cozy Cole on drums, Milton Hinton on bass, Hilton Jefferson on alto, Kay Johnson on trombone, Jerry Blake on clarinet and a kid trumpet player named Danny Barker...
Hollywood's No. 1 box office bait in 1939 was not Clark Gable, Errol Flynn or Tyrone Power, but a rope-haired, kazoo-voiced kid with a comic-strip face, who until this week had never appeared in a picture without mugging or overacting it. His name (assumed) was Mickey Rooney, and to a large part of the more articulate U. S. cinemaudience, his name was becoming a frequently used synonym for brat...
Whether Master Rooney is also chugging off to greater things remains to be seen. Because he is a manlier kid than any other who ever achieved stardom, his passage into maturity may not, as it has to others, mean his passage into professional oblivion. It is not conceivable that Jackie Cooper or Freddie Bartholomew might bloom into a Spencer Tracy. It is conceivable that Mickey might. If he does avoid the fate of Jackie Coogan, et al., he will have his Mom and the old theatrical trunk in which he was raised to thank, as well as his rough-&-tumble...
...During 1939 big American Can Co. increased its sales 12.5% to $189,434,614, while its kid-competitor Continental Can Co. Inc.'s sales were up only 7.7%, to $92,196,834. Both companies increased their net incomes roughly two and a half times as fast as sales, American 34% to $18,284,964, Continental...