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Once safe inside, he admitted that he was a soldier absent without leave. His name, he said, was Louis Turini. Startled, authorities wired Camp Pickett, Va., learned that the Boston ledge-walker had sneaked out of a hospital ward there a month before. Still unbelieving, they got a photograph of the Boston Turini.* He was the same...
With Crimson football tides continuing at a low ebb, both the Cadet Corps and the Cadet Band will be absent from the Harvard-Army game for the second consecutive year...
Last year, when Army inflicted a 49 to 0 defeat in the Crimson, both the Cadet Corps and the 50-man Band were conspioulously absent. With five games on the road, the itinerary of the Band and the Corps pointedly excluded Cambridge...
This code is in force again in Washington. It was absent-or nearly absent-for a long time. After the Harding scandals, the Coolidge and Hoover administrations were as clean as Washington had been for generations. The New Dealers were dedicated men: some were dedicated to ideas, some to their magnetic leader and some to the personal acquisition of power. They were not boodlers, grafters or dealers in personal "influence" in the old machine sense. To most of them, a job applicant recommended by a political boss had two strikes on him. They had a contemptuous name for politicians: pols...
Without knowing quite what to make of the absent-minded researcher, his new boss (Jack Hawkins) orders the experiment speeded up, dispatches him to Labrador to look into the crash of one of the new planes. Widower Stewart says goodbye to his gravely precocious daughter (Janette Scott) and shambles aboard a Reindeer. The trip starts brightly enough; a pretty stewardess (Glynis Johns) pampers him, and Movie Star Dietrich dozes just across the aisle. Then he learns that the plane is just past its crucial point of strain...