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...finish the job of de-Hueyizing their university. They elected as president Blackie Hodges, now a major general. A group of undergraduates, irked at getting a soldier president, lowered the University flag to half-mast. But Louisiana's Acting President Paul Macarius Hebert, who had done a bang-up job of cleaning up after Smith, swallowed his disappointment at not getting the job, told General Hodges: "You may count on [our] enthusiastic support...
...whole the outlook for the Exeter meet is fair, although predictions cannot be made. Yale will be a tougher nut to crack, as the Elis are said to have a bang-up team this year...
...Durante (17633) moderately well sung by the Augustana Choir under Henry Veld....And for Wagner fans, there is a new pressing of the overture to Die Meistersinger played by Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra. This sort of stuff is right up Stokowski's alley. He gives a brilliant, bang-up performance of the prelude to the third act of Lohengrin, on the fourth side...
...heel, describing his greedy world of mice and moola (women and money). Perhaps the most laudable thing about this character is that he might not betray the mice for the moola-but one can't be sure. Joey has now become the combination hero-and-heel of a bang-up George Abbott musi-comedy, a profane hymn to the gaudy goddess of metropolitan night life...
Crusty Director Heil, who had already made himself famous by gathering the bang-up art exhibitions of San Francisco's World's Fair, was noted in the U. S. art world for his determination. For a year he negotiated, first with Paris, then with the Vichy Government, guaranteed shipment costs, promised to keep the collection safe until the war was over. Last October he managed to get the pictures from Buenos Aires as far as New York, where they were promptly frozen as part of the assets of France. Stymied, Director Heil started sending letters to Congressmen, even...