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...very good maneuver. The movie? I didn't like it." Of Spellbound: "I was lousy." Of The Yearling: "I would have liked the picture better with its Walt Disney aspects pushed into the background. It was much too lushly done, and we have to take part of the rap...
...from 1941 to 1945; of a pulmonary ailment; in Washington. Tethered to the Pentagon after 34 years of service, mostly with tactical outfits, Old Horseman Day Surles champed at the bit all through World War II, did his creditable best with the vast, tape-tangled B.P.R., silently took the rap for many a public relations bungle by underlings and superiors...
Until this spring, all they had on Moe was a jaundiced eye and a 1942 federal rap for perjury. He was fined $2,000 for denying the purchase of some hot ice from a New York source. Then he tried to do business with Mrs. Sayde Genis...
...survey, called the Radio Acceptance Poll (RAP), grew out of a Toledo meeting last May of the National Federation of Catholic College Students. Almost 100 of the federation's 180 Catholic schools agreed to listen in every week and report reactions to 16 big comedy shows. Some 30 Protestant and 17 Catholic clubs will participate...
...Offensive." In last week's first tabulation, nobody was labeled offensive, 14 of the 16 shows squeaked by, and only one-Jimmy Durante-was "Highly Acceptable." Hope was alone in the "Barely Acceptable" class. The pollsters announced that they will keep on listening, will award a prize RAP at the season's end to the comedian with the worst record...