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...most successful crew coach in decades will leave his charges in midstream this year to accept a commission in the Navy. Tom Bolles, a fixture here since 1936, will leave on Saturday to report for indoctrination at Columbia University in New York. Bert Haines will take over Bolles task of whipping the oarsmen into shape for the rest of the season...
...week's show, must have dreamed back to the great days of the New Amsterdam Theater, where the late, great Florenz Ziegfeld made summer official with a new Follies. Perhaps memory winged back to the Follies of 1917, with W. C. Fields, Eddie Cantor, Will Rogers, Fanny Brice, Bert Williams, Walter Catlett, Peggy Hopkins (later Joyce) in the cast. Or to the Follies of 1919, with a cast hardly less impressive, and such tunes as Tulip Time, Mandy, and the nonpareil Bert Williams' You Cannot Make Your Shimmy Shake...
Wrote New York Herald Tribune Reporter Bert Andrews: "[The hearing] would have left an uninformed Australian puzzled as to whether America was trying to export Mr. Flynn as a diplomat or deport him as an undesirable." In grey suit and dazzling Charvet tie, which looked like a Dali dream, Ed Flynn denied all charges of graft and malfeasance made against him. Assistant Secretary of State G. Howland Shaw read a prepared statement calling Flynn "qualified," then deftly sidestepped all embarrassing questions. (Q: "Can you think of any poorer qualified man than Flynn?" A: "I am not in a position...
...mournful, melodious song, The Ballad of the German Soldier's Bride, has been haunting BBC's short-wave listeners in Germany. The words are by Bavarian Bert Brecht, the music by Polish Mischa Spoliansky. It is sung by two voices. English translation...
...future of the other spring sports seems highly indefinite. The only coach who may not be here is Tom Bolles, and Bert Haines, jayvee crew mentor seems fairly certain of staying. Track will probably continue on a more ambitious schedule, Sampson said, but here again nothing is certain. Many of the minor sports, however, seem doomed to a war death...