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Superbly played, this saucy fairy tale by Preston Sturges is continuously gay. It is the season's first smash-hit, by a margin of one night over Rope's End (see below...
...Committeeman, had come to the support of Mr. Davis. Boss Maschke blamed Mr. Davis for their defeat. Had the latter promised the public not to run again for mayor himself, the plan would have won, felt Boss Maschke. A mathematician, Manager Hopkins on election night calculated that if his margin of victory continued to dwindle in the same ratio at future elections, he would be voted out of his job-which would otherwise last for life-within five years...
...first race the outlandish Swedish knockabout Bachante, gathered her big spinnaker full of wind and kited away from the German yacht Kickerle, and the U. S. Tipler III, to win with a record margin of over 21 min. U. S. yachtsmen looked puzzled, German yachtsmen muttered grave gutturals. In the second and third races, Bachante readily repeated her first victory, thus cinching the Corinthian Yacht Club cup and the Marblehead trophy. Said a U. S. yachtsman wistfully: "We are glad that the Swedes won the big cup, but we are more grateful for what they have shown...
...Gambling on the stock market is not different from gambling in other business transactions. The purchase and quick resale of stocks is not any more gambling than the purchase and quick resale of lots. . . . The amount of margin upon which a man trades does not determine the gambling element. ... A man can buy stock for a small cash payment . . . and there is no reason to call him a gambler because he sells the stock shortly after at a profit. ... If the trading in stocks . . . is immoral, then the church should eliminate from her membership the heads of stock exchange houses...
...narrow margin the world's light-weight (135 pound limit) title remained last week with soulful-eyed Sammy Mandell, smart-looking "Rockford (Ill.) Sheik...