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Posted: 7/28/2011 12:51 PM
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I just finished watching a movie called "Local Boy Makes Good" on TCM.  It's a 1931 flick starring Holgate native Joe E. Brown, who plays a shy botany student who joins the Ohio University track team.  He has confidence problems, however, and loses a race to a rival college -- Wesley -- when another runner threatens to spike him.  After all efforts to boost his confidence fail, his girl has him drink a mixture of rubbing alcohol and water.  He eventually drinks the rest of the alcohol straight, then goes out and wins the final race, giving Ohio the meet.  That night at the victory celebration, however, he becomes a "wild man" and tears the place apart; the police are called, but he knocks out four of them.   Remember, this was 80 years ago.
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Posted: 7/28/2011 3:06 PM
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You absolutly have to be making this up, right?
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Posted: 7/28/2011 4:43 PM
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Posted: 7/28/2011 4:50 PM
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Note that the summary describes the protagonist as an "Ohio university student" (lowercase "U").


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Posted: 7/28/2011 5:01 PM
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I couldn't -- wouldn't -- make this up.
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Posted: 7/29/2011 8:32 AM
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Note that the summary describes the protagonist as an "Ohio university student" (lowercase "U").

That must be the famous university of Ohio where the great Tommy Freeman played basketball.  I remember it well.

Joe E. Brown, by the way, is a personal favorite actor of mine.  I'm sorry I missed seeing him as a) an athlete, and b) a drunk.  Years ahead of his time, was he.
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Posted: 7/29/2011 8:53 AM
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What was the big annual party on campus back in 1931, "-72Fest?"



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Posted: 7/29/2011 9:14 AM
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Note that the summary describes the protagonist as an "Ohio university student" (lowercase "U").


But both the scoreboard and the announcer at the track meet refer to just "Ohio" and the American Film Institute catalog uses the uppercase U:

http://books.google.com/books?id=bsoUXGZSxZcC&pg=PA57...
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