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Class of 1950--President--Jane Rainie, Janet Stewart, Lucia Toscano; Vice-President--Lucia Cate, Anne Rodriguez, Barbara Tuttle; Secretary--Nina Emerson, Sue Eastabrooks, Hope Ingersoll; Treasurer--Katharine Chase, Pat Hartford, Marjorie Otten; Council Representative--Sue Evans, Carol Frasor, Deirdre O'Brien, Barbara Samuel, Enid Trinkle...
...Sport in Paris, 19-year-old Harvard Freshman Dick Button gave twelve rivals a lesson in the art of figure skating, won the world's championship for the second year in a row. The women's champion, successor to the throne vacated by Canada's Barbara Ann Scott (now a pro): Czechoslovakia's winsome, 17-year-old Alena Vrzanova...
Died. Bailey Willis, 91, Stanford University's longtime (since 1915) professor of geology, explorer and world-famed seismologist who was credited with predicting Santa Barbara's disastrous earthquake of 1925; after short illness; in Palo Alto, Calif...
...unpopular curmudgeon. The film's makers avoid an out & out tussle with the Johnston Office by killing off the murderer, a kindly old doctor, before Insurance Investigator Dennis O'Keefe can catch up with him. But, preoccupied with Dennis' courtship of a suspect's daughter (Barbara Britton), they blithely overlook the fact that a local banker was an accessory to murder and that Sheriff William Bendix shut his eyes to the crime. The rather whimsical reward for all this tampering with justice: Dennis gets the girl...
...acting, though, is excellent right down the line. Meredith is only Meredith, but it fits. Dulcie Gray as his wife mixes helplessness with devotion and comes up with the correct martyrdom. But little black-haired Barbara White, who is on screen for ten minutes as the flyer's wife, is on her way to stardom. A mobile face that coordinates magically with her lines enables Miss White to strip everything unessential and distracting from the heart of her role. Kieron Moore stalks sulkily as her moody, proud, and dangerous husband...