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...Brom frightens poor Ichabod with a pumpkin head and then reveals himself as a qualified pedagog (who is about to open his own school), is revealed as this radically modified classic concludes. Of more point in Bronxville, whose progressive educational system is famous, than on a national network is Brom's final song...
Under five feet, pumpkin-cheeked, with a button nose and a buttonhole mouth "nearly in the centre of his visage," a double chin that hung like an udder, deep red hair, high-domed forehead, big ears and plenty of fat. set off by the loudest clothes to be found in a loud century, Gibbon's personal appearance was the most noticeable of the handicaps reputed to have combined to produce the perfect historian...
When Love Is Young (Universal). The best the class prophets could do for Wanda Werner (Virginia Bruce) of Wendensville, when their forecastings were made public at the commencement dance in the high-school gym, was that she would win the prize at the State fair for the biggest pumpkin. They did not mean to be unkind, but Wanda went home crying. She wanted no fame as a pumpkin grower, dreamed of singing opera...
...Columbus the Nominee attended an Ohio State-Pitt football game, munched popcorn, hot dogs and pumpkin pie, was quoted as remarking: "There is nothing I enjoy more in football than light, fast backs...
Last week Enrico Fermi had his picture taken holding a hollow globe of paraffin as big as a pumpkin, standing beside a piece of apparatus that looked like stovepipe put together with baling wire (see cut). Said Dr. Fermi: "The most obvious application of artificial radioactivity which can be foreseen is in the medicinal field. Radium, naturally radioactive, is used for the treatment of cancer. The completely new radioactive substances created in the laboratory should give medical men new tools, some of which may prove more efficient than radium...