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...must accept the reality of man and society, the reality of empirical data, and finally the infinite possibility of interpreting anything, within its own context, as real. He has certainly provided a means of relationship between narrow, closed orbits of specialization, which would seem to be a long stride toward the establishment of a cooperation of ideas and through this to a cooperation between peoples...
...Soviet motion-picture industry passed at one stride from making crude propaganda shorts to making cine-masterpieces. Three great directors came up: Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Alexander Dovzhenko. They and others soon produced such silent film classics as Potemkin, The End of St. Petersburg, Ten Days That Shook the World, and one magnificent documentary film, A Shanghai Document. News of these movie marvels began to leak into the outside world, and business-minded Bolsheviks jumped at the chance to make propaganda and money at once. To distribute Soviet pictures in the U. S. they set up a U. S. company...
Spurning this luscious prospect, spurning Jesse Jones's surprise offer of $200,000 for Houston, members took Chicago, although Mayor Kelly had to stride up & down the aisle, acting as his own floor marshal; and the vote was close. In no time newspaper correspondents added it up as another sign of strength for the third-term drive, since Mayor Kelly had spoken for it. and even Chairman Farley had mentioned the 10,000,000 independent voters whose votes, third-termers believe, can be brought out only by glamorous, dramatic Franklin Roosevelt...
...entered in the high hurdles, Bob Partlow and Johnnie Bunker in the high jump. Partlow cleared six feet in the K. of C. meet, but Hunker, a six footer of yore who should have the bamboo up to six feet, two inches by now, has yet to hit his stride. Donahne has been running well and in smooth form; he will have real competition is Shields of Yale and may be pushed to as extraordinary time...
Hollywood-hardened children, who like their fantasy lavish and solid, may enjoy the elaborate Technicolored sets (cost: $200,000). They may even take in their stride the skulls, owls, ravens, blazing lightning, flaming forest and crashing trees the producers have got together to scare the daylights out of them. They can scarcely fail to enjoy Shirley Temple's artful childishness or chubby, kinky-haired Johnny Russell as her little brother, Tyltyl...