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...There are two kinds of dictators-the chieftain type and the medicine man type. Hitler is the latter. He is a medium. German policy is not made; it is revealed through Hitler. He is the mouthpiece of the gods...
...chief thing that distinguishes Henry ("Scotty") Scott, 26, from thousands of other medium-blond, medium-sized young men is his ability to play the piano wearing mittens. As a youth at Syracuse University, he intended to be a serious concert pianist, until a winter day when he went indoors from skating with hands so freezing cold that he kept on his mittens to practice his scales...
...Loewi discovered, Dr. Dale proved, that nervous impulses are the result of chemical action, not of electrical action as had formerly been supposed. Dr. Loewi might have had all the credit for this fundamental physiological work, if he were a more persistent researcher. A rich, energetic, glib man of medium height, he rises each morning at 5 o'clock, is in his laboratory exactly one hour later. Assistants do all the actual experimenting, for Dr. Loewi is remarkably clumsy, breaking almost everything he touches. This characteristic almost ruined Dr. Loewi's career a decade ago. He asserted that...
...Lorinda Pike, uncouth, imbecilic Shad LeDue, capitalistic Francis Tasbough, suave, silken Commandant Swan and sanctimonious Parson Prang are filled competently, even played momentarily with flashes of insight. It is no fault of theirs that the audience occasionally laughs in the wrong places; rather it is the fault of the medium, for the use of exaggeration and caricature is at all times, terrifying rather than ridiculous in the novel...
...dealing with the life of a steelworker, any medium except the cinema would inevitably have found Labor v. Capital a central problem. For Universal, the sole problem herein was how to substitute overalls for the soldiers' uniforms McLaglen has worn in his recent pictures. Adapted from a Liberty story, directed by John G. Blystone, The Magnificent Brute effects McLaglen's demobilization with a minimum of distinction, a fair share of entertainment. Most tedious noise: McLaglen's guffaw...