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...original educational counselor and publisher of an annual school and college handbook, has categorically stated that American universities--Harvard in particular--forced us in to the first World War and are now doing their best to enroll us in the current edition. His conclusion rests on a tenuous thread of logic running from pro-Allied speeches by university presidents through the control of their educational institutions by the business community to the latter's economic stake in an Allied victory. Essentially, his argument is that the United States went to war in 1917 and will go again to protect...
...illusion that there they will find security. It has been impossible to include in a two-hour film all their adventures, and some of the most powerful are omitted in favor of the more dramatic. But on the whole, the selection of incidents, and their unification by a continuous thread of ideas, if not of action, is masterfully done; and the result is a rare combination of great entertainment and artistic triumph...
Around this central thread of narrative many characters appear: landowners who still practise the large courtesy of the frontier, a wise and cynical old lawyer, a rich and respected doctor whose sadism nobody quite suspects, a feeble-minded boy and a pack that picks on him, old farmers who still remember '49, a lonely Catholic priest, a stern old German music teacher...
...that, as a special Christmas dispensation, each German man may buy one necktie, each woman one pair of stockings, without the usual deduction from his or her annual clothing ration of "100 points"-ordinarily a necktie exhausts three points, a pair of stockings six points. Knitting yarn and even thread are so drastically rationed in the Reich that few German women can make clothes for their relatives as Christmas presents. Toy stores were practically sold out weeks ago, and last week in Berlin's famed Wertheim's not a single new soldier or cannon was available and clerks...
...various things: as the year War II started, when Congressman Martin Dies exposed the Red menace, when Joe Louis beat Tony Galento, when Al Capone got out of jail. Mrs. E. M. Noble, of Minneapolis, Minn., will remember it as the year she crocheted 117,000 feet of thread into a 10' 6" by 6' 4" tablecloth with 2,000,000 patient little stitches and won the crochet championship of the U. S. Prize: $250 in cash, a trip to Manhattan, a gold crochet hook...