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Last week this brave, ill, burning man faced a special embarrassment. The problem: Would Manuel Quezon continue to be President of the Philippine Commonwealth after Nov. 15? On that day his term definitely and formally expires; a strict interpretation of the Philippine Constitution would put dignified, intelligent Vice President Sergio Osmeña into the executive's chair. Sergio Osmeña, also in Washington, once bitterly opposed Manuel Quezon, is now his good political friend...
...Bearded James Gillespie Elaine rose to the Speakership in 1869, in a year when only two-fifths of the House members were holdovers. He organized the House on strict party lines, held unquestioned leadership...
Discipline is Annapolis-strict: cadets keep their own quarters as spick as at the Academy. On their weekly "town liberty" they may not smoke on the street, or drink a beer at Harry's, or ride or sit in any vehicle except a bicycle. Lounging up & down Franklin Street, they have but one thought: to get through and done with Chapel Hill, get on to Primary, Intermediate, and Operational Training Stations, toward the fine day when they lift a Hellcat or a Corsair off a carrier...
First among the aspirin-promoters was the Navy's strict monthly check on trainees' scholastic accomplishments. At Southern California, seven of the team's best prospects were on the sidelines last week because grades were down. At Yale, two husky tackles were flunking out of football via celestial navigation...
...really be described as beautiful. As the gigolesque Iron Guardist, rococo Robert Donat turns in one of the best performances of his career. All Tartu needs, to be a classic of its kind, is the sort of razor-edged melodramatic and psychological inventiveness which belongs to Alfred Hitchcock in strict monopoly and has been conferred on a very few of his compatriots, in very small doses...