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...never interferes with them. But if they want to come back (and most do), his door is always open. His alumni have led in organizing locals of the Utility Workers Union, the National Federation of Telephone Workers, the brewery workers and the bus drivers. He has watched the alumni rid local after local of Communists and racketeers...
...first a concession to sartorial splendor. That stubble had to go. And he wasn't the bald-headed eagle. A little slickum, a little polish, smooth out a few of those wrinkles, he'd been letting himself get seedy lately. Look old, feel old. Now to get rid of that . . . . . . pot belly. There must be something to do about that. Some steam and a quick rubdown. Not too much; there was a beautiful day to be lived outside...
Anyone afficted with festering grudges can get rid of them on the Editorial Board, while News Board candidates have a unique chance to meet the University's who's who. Future businessmen, cartoonists, and photo men are all welcome. The date is November 28, the time...
...animal is being hunted by a quorum of the local rogues' gallery (Francis L. Sullivan, Lon Chancy, Glenn Anders et a/.). Luckily required to speak none of the film's dialogue, the dog charms Shelley into locking Farley out of the boudoir. Whenever Farley tries to get rid of this dog in the manger by answering a newspaper ad inserted by one of the rival crooks, Farley finds the claimant murdered-and the police (William Demarest et a/.) leaping to embarrassing conclusions...
...dedicated nationalist with an extraordinarily sensitive skin (he breaks out in spots when exposed to Egypt's hot sunshine, never ventures outside without a protecting umbrella and gloves). His single-minded policy since his appointment last year: use every means-if necessary, threaten appeals to Russia-to get rid of those British and grab the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. To him, the Suez is dust in the enemy's eye; since Egypt depends for its life on the waters of the Nile, his real object is the river's headwaters in the Sudan...