Stars to star heroes on screen with Harmon and Gehrig
Virginia Vale reports Hollywood eyes athletes as potential film stars. Columbia begins Harmon of Michigan with Tom Harmon in the title role. Republic signs Billy Conn for Kid Tinsel from Octavus Roy Cohen. Selznick and Metro plan a Lou Gehrig biopic, a tough casting task.
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Columbia
Harmon
Michigan
Tom Harmon
Republic
Billy Conn
The
Squared Circle
Kid Tinsel
Octavus Roy Cohen
David Selznick
Metro
Hollywood Stars Dominate New Screen Lineup Highlights
A sweep through recent film news shows Gary Cooper in Sergeant York and Jackie Cooper with Susanna Foster in backstage Paramount scenes. Universal previews Durbin’s They Live Alone while Navy Blue and Gold is reissued as James Stewart returns to cinema. Paramount touts Dorothy Lamour and Dor image, and Columbia secures Five Men with Howard Olivier Massey in an expansive British production. Red Skelton earns a first starring role in Wizard of Arkansas.
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Paramount
Jackie Cooper
Susanna Foster
Walter Abel
Madeleine—Garrell
Dorothy—Kamour
Claudette Colbert
Mary Martin
Paulette Goddard
Alke
Abel
Jackie
Deanna Durbin
Margaret Sullavan
Durbin
New York
Charles Laughton
Universal
Annapolis
Metro
James Stewart
Bob Burns
Columbia
Leslie Howard
Laurence Olivier
Raymond Massey
Edgar Buchanan
20Th Century-Fox
Swaater
Anne Baxter
Dana Andrews
War era golf course humor from letters home
A humorous wartime dispatch from Oscar to Ma describes soldiers at golf links treating generals with caution, noting women players, cries of yoo hoo, and a general Lear causing mixed reactions. It wryly comments on discipline, manners, and the absurdities of war life amid retold old battles and light verse.
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Tenessee
Otto Bixby
China
Stimson
Roosevelt
Lear
General Lear
Baseball’s Bright Young Hitters DiMaggio Williams Reiser
The piece compares Joe DiMaggio Ted Williams and Pete Reiser over 1940 41 performance with historical peers like Ty Cobb and Johnny Mize. It notes Williams and DiMaggio as top hitters, discusses wrists and swing tension, and previews a hot NL AL chase as Reiser rises.
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Williams
DiMaggio
N. L
Pete Reiser
Wie Dodgers
Johnny Mize
Cardinals
Big John
Mize
Demarest
Royston
Ty Cobb
Brooklyn
Leo Durocher
Reiser
Durocher
Williams DiMaggio Battle for AL Batting Title Continues
Grantland Rice notes late summer play in the American League race between Ted Williams of Boston and Joe DiMaggio of New York. Williams leads with a .400 mark at halfway. DiMaggio’s hitting streak keeps him in the spotlight as both vie for the season’s top batting honor.
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Tscs
Ted Willams
Red Sox
Joe DiMagelo
Yankees
Heath
Cullenbine
Swat
Williams
DiMag
A. L
DiMaggio
San Francisco
San Diego
Boston
Tricky Trivia From A Fragmented Text
Questions touch on a chiliad meaning years and spectacles removal in conversation. Other prompts ask about a Spain peninsula, highest waterfall, John Brown’s number of children, Greek goddess of youth, Fourth and Fifth century invaders, and the origin of a famous saying.
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Spain
John Brown
Harper’s Ferry
West Virginia
Gaul
Africa
Rome
Quiz Items Span Heights Raids and Historical Figures
A collage of clues mentions about 4400 feet height equals 26 times Niagara Falls and references a Harper's Ferry raid with two killed on October 16, 1859. It also alludes to youths to the Greeks, the Vandals, and Robert Walpole in a brisk information quiz.
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Niagara Falls
Acre and Arsenal
Harper's Ferry
Robert Walpole
Answers Across the Ages.
A concise riddle styled note listing four items: The Answers, a reference to a thousand years, a cultural gesture by the Orientals as respect, Iberian, and the Angel Falls in Venezuela described as the world's loftiest cataract.
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Angel Falls
Venezuela
Not, Standing Still Men Cannot Be Stationary
A compact admonition on moral progress arguing that inaction leads to moral decline, contrasting rising to virtue with sinking toward sin and corruption. The eye is warned against complacency and urged to pursue positive change rather than stagnation.
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Charles Kornet
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Pittsburgh
Nancy Feller
Arthur Myeland
Chicago
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Grantland Rice
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