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Four carloads of college Republicans will participate in Senator Richard Nixon's lightning tour through Boston this afternoon. Nixon will arrive at Back Bay station at 3:25 p.m., where a motorcade will await. He will attend a "monster rally" at Boston Common at 3:50 p.m., proceed to Perkins Square at 4:45 p.m., rush to Quincy Square at 5:50 p.m., and soon thereafter take a train to Brockton...
Amolsch works very hard to sell himself to the first year men as a screaming monster. He has a powerful voice, which he combines with an arrogant, scornful look and a faultless drill manner. Yet when the first impression finally wears off, Amolsch appears as the most terrible Mitty of them all. Away from the drill field he becomes jovial, a sympathetic "good guy," best liked by the cadets who know him best...
...that Mr. Steinbeck's relatives are not interesting people. On the contrary, they are the sort usually described as "tempestuous" and include a self-educated noble farmer, two pairs of moody brothers, and a monster. They are all interesting people, probably drawn from life, but one gets the feeling that in his drawings Mr. Steinbeck has exaggerated some lines until the characters themselves have become weird and unbelieveable...
Unbelievable, but through a different cause, is the monster, Cathy Ames. There are, Mr. Steinbeck believes, moral monsters just as there are physically misshapen ones, and Cathy is one of these. She starts, as a young girl, by burning down her home (with her mother and father in it), and ends up owning a whorehouse dedicated to the more violent perversions, abandoning a husband and a brace of twins along the way. Never having met so fiercely evil a person, the reader will have to rely on the author's word, and that at times is insufficient...
...Laughton as a dapper old bum who unsuccessfully tries to get himself locked up in a warm jail for the winter. A burlesqued version of The Ransom of Red Chief presents Fred Allen and Oscar Levant as dour confidence men who, after making the mistake of kidnaping a little monster of a hillbilly boy, finally pay his parents a reward for taking him off their hands. Sample dialogue (strictly not O. Henry as the boy sicks a bear on his terrified captors: "He's a cinnamon bear," says Allen. Replies Levant: "I don't care what flavor...