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McInnis has taken a leaf from Billy Southworth's book when it comes to picking his starting outfield. If the Yale coaching brains decide to pitch a right hander against the Crimson. McInnis will probably put lefthanded hitters Charley Roche and Ed Foynes on either side of centerfielder Hal Moffie...
...Thames is shattered by frequent impromptu quartets. Red Top musicals are more reminiscent of the corner barber shop than of the opera house, but they do break up the pre-race tension. Then too, Burt Haines, Bolles' venerable assistant, has more time to take the boys over at croquet. Charley Morgan, the varsity manager, complains, "Burt plays like that lawn was a billiard table...
...Charley has other worries besides Haines' skill at croquet. He is waiting for Milton Caniff's annual drawing. Each year, the creator of Terry and the Pirates and the present author of Steve Canyon sends the Harvard crew a drawing of one of his scantily clad lovelies for a good luck token. He informed Morgan that this year's drawing was in the works. But it hasn't arrived at Red Top yet and Morgan is looking for it in each mail. Superstitution or not, this Harvard outfit isn't overlooking a bet for Friday. After all, this...
...season when the public snubbed the critics. Despite a strong press, Life with Mother and The Traitor flopped financially; despite a badly mixed press, Where's Charley? and Jean Giraudoux's enchanting Madwoman of Chaillot flourished. Musically, 1948-49 could point with pride to Kiss Me, Kate as well as South Pacific; but, to only one enjoyable revue, Lend an Ear. It was a season when the mourners' bench was lined with Tennessee Williams, Clifford Odets, John van Druten, Kaufman & Ferber, Garson Kanin, Marc Connelly...
Last week the pupils of John Kerr were remembering old Charley just as he would have wanted. When he died at 80, three weeks ago, only a handful of people bothered to go to his funeral, but by last week the whole town was talking about him. He had left an estate of $100,000, and he had put it all in trust for the kids. From now on, on the last day before Easter holidays and again before Christmas, every boy & girl at John Kerr will get a $5 bill from Charley's estate to spend...