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...embroglios, probably none has equalled the drama of those from 1929 to 1931 when one of Harvard's all time greats, Barry Wood, played opposite the Eli's "little boy Blue", crafty placekicking specialist Albie Booth. In 1929, both met for the first time as sophomores on the turf of the Bowl. Booth missed a field goal that might have turned the tide, and Harvard walked off victorious, 10 to 6. Sportscribe Arthur Daley has called the game one of football's classics...
...Unfinished Dance (M-G-M). Little Margaret O'Brien, a "sparrow" (apprentice) in a ballet theater, has a schoolgirl crush on Cyd Charisse, a promising ballerina. Margaret hates Karin Booth, the premiere danseuse, because she thinks Cyd should have the top ballerina's job. If only something awful would happen to Karin...
...Vivian, Thomas S. Langner '45, Thomas C. Fischer '46, John D. Kendall '45, Edward Prince '49, and James D. Dodge '44. Other contemporary Dunces are John B. Lister '50, James M. Robbins '48, John W. Wade '49, J. Peter Winkelstein '49, Thomas M. A. Schmid '49, Harry F. Booth '48, and Arthur S. Biddle...
...firsts: she was the first to publish T. S. Eliot's Prufrock, a satire on the effete culture of Boston ("In the room the women come and go, Talking of Michelangelo"-); Rupert Brooke's War Sonnets; Joyce Kilmer's Trees; Vachel Lindsay's General William Booth Enters Into Heaven, She gave the first critical recognition to Wallace Stevens, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Karl Shapiro. In Poetry D. H. Lawrence, Ford Madox Ford and Rabindranath Tagore got their first U.S. hearings. # Copyright by permission of Harcourt, Brace...
Speakaluminum. In the National Hardware Show in Manhattan's Grand Central Palace, buying pressure was so heavy that one hapless manufacturer of duralumin folding rulers rigged up a booth to resemble a speakeasy, barred the door to all but established customers. Despite this, his orders by the end of the second day amounted to 180,000, enough to keep his plant busy for 45 days...