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...shoemaker, John Aiken left school at 14 to enter a furniture factory. Today, at 40, he is an expert polisher of hardwood furniture. Meanwhile, he has served as top sergeant in the Motor Transport Corps during the War, has married, has fathered five children. At night he has studied anthropology, sociology, history, economics, law. For 24 years he has been reading Karl Marx...
...wandering boy who made the mother's hair grow grey. Now it is the drinking daughter also." Within 48 hours Dr. Colvin had been named his Party's choice for the White House. Then with a whoop the Drys nominated as his running mate Sergeant Alvin C. York of Tennessee. When that A. E. F. hero, who had not been consulted, promptly declined, the Prohibitionists picked a Los Angeles lawyer named Claude A. Watson for the Vice-Presidency...
Charles W. Kessler '37, major, heads Harvard's field artillery battalion, as commander, seconded by F. Gorham Brigham '37, Captain and adjutant, and William T. Glendinning '38, sergeant-major...
...from a murder in a department store, including fun in the firearms department, wax dummies that come alive and slap policemen on the shoulder, pistol shots from a secret elevator, a kleptomaniac (Etienne Girardot), archery practice by a floorwalker, a couple of corpses and Ted Healy as a police sergeant, fumbling helplessly with a service revolver. At the root of it all are the activities of a ring of crooks who have been using the store as a cache for stolen goods. Best gag: the murderer's mob, coming to his rescue in police uniforms, set upon with pails...
...whose notions of duty prevent him from reporting a cold to the infirmary, dies of pneumonia. In Thornton's hearing the conscientious medical officer tells the commandant that the school ought to be prosecuted. The commandant hints that if Thornton ignores this incident, he will be made a sergeant next year...