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...Magnet [J. Arthur Rank; Universal) is a slow, pleasant British comedy that examines the mind of a ten-year-old boy. Like the boy in The Fallen Idol, The Magnet's hero (William Fox) is the victim of his childishly dramatized interpretation of overheard conversations and the mysterious conduct of adults. While the police look for him to give him a medal for an unwitting civic good deed, he fears that he is being hunted down as a thief and possibly a murderer. His psychiatrist father (Stephen Murray) smugly assures his worried wife (Kay Walsh) that their...
...young boy I overheard the other day was explaining to his mother about a blackboard set he had his heart set on. The sales lady treated his arguments with a certain scorn and pointed out that blackboards, after all, were made for little children; was he sure that a nice photo-electric cell, or potentiometer wouldn't be better...
...taxi dancer who was shot as she danced, and slumped to the floor, dying. Dark-haired Violet Watson, 35, wife of an Air Force sergeant, had been dancing for two hours with a 56-year-old steady customer who had bought a fat roll of tickets. Another taxi dancer overheard them quarreling: the man begged Violet to run away with him. When she refused, he fired a pistol from his pocket and escaped down the back stairs...
Correspondent Jones also reported a conversation he overheard at a recent social gathering. An American living in Rome was giving another middle-aged American matron her opinion of the "disgraceful" way TIME had written about one of her favorite foreign politicians. "I think TIME ought to be barred," she said. "I wouldn't know about that," her friend replied. "I just don't bother to read TIME." "Well," said the first lady, "if you read it every week like...
...proved statistically in Professor S---'s Philosophy course that the American woman is a bitch.... Professor M--- reports that one night he was walking down Prospect Street (home of Princeton's social clubs) on a house party weekend. He noticed a boy and girl walking arm in arm, and overheard the male remark to his date, 'Don't you know that virginity is the most bizarre form of sexual perversion known...