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...boat is soon completely out of the convict's control. It races downstream, hits an eddy, drifts back, finally carries the convict, stunned and incredulous, to the tree where the woman perches on the branch like a bird. "It's taken you a while," she says...
...witty, shocking Jean Cocteau's The Terrible Parents, whose plot involves sons cuckolding their fathers and other incest. When Cocteau offered free tickets to school children, the Paris Municipal Council ordered the theatre's lease canceled, thus closing the show. Cocteau, who calls himself "John the Bird-catcher," at once slapped a five-million-franc damage suit on the city of Paris, alleging his play has "great artistic merit" and insisting that it was left "to the discretion of the teachers to choose the pupils most worthy to profit by the offer of free tickets...
...Crimson, paced by Bill McSweeney and Lee Bird with 15 and 14 points respectively, were never headed as they jumped into an immediate edge and widened this into a 28 to 18 margin a half-time. Much of their success was due to the fact that they were able to control the rebounds off of both backboards...
...which he missed while in Ohio competing for a Rhodes scholarship has pushed him back temporarily to the role of a substitute. Franny Simpson, another Sophomore to be retained on the Varsity squad, got his baptism against Tufts and will be heard from before long. Bill McSweeney and Lee Bird have shown flashes of form, but as yet they have been switched back and forth between the Varsity and the Jayvees...
...they have three youngsters, all bird-lovers and naturalists like dad, all until two years ago fully convinced of dad's infallibility. But then, when redheaded, tubby, smart John Francis Jr., 15, was sports editor of Barnard School's paper, John Sr. called a big one wrong. If Schmeling beat Joe Louis he promised to eat his hat. John ate a hat all right-a candy and cake creation. John Jr. lost no such wager, but dad's wrong guess was a blow. He said, "Did I lose prestige...