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With its 1,4671th consecutive performance, Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit achieved the longest run of any straight play in London's history. It had to play through months of robombing to overtake Charley's Aunt, the title holder for 50 years; it will have to run more than another year and a half to catch Chu-Chin-Chow, London's (and the world's) longest-running musical-2,238 performances...
...pair, on their first night of reunion, prowling round & round the nuptial bed like two suspicious alley cats). Halfway through, the story goes fancy, loses touch with its touching subject but not entirely with its ability to get laughs, thanks to Jean Arthur, Charles Coburn, Lee Bowman, Charley Grapewin...
Featuring six returning veterans from the squad that defeated the Cantabs by the score of 13 to 0 last year, the W.P.I. attack is concentrated around the hard plunging of Hugo Norige, co-captain and fullback of the squad, and the fleet flank running of halfbacks Charley Schmit and George Kennedy...
Biggest news of the moment is a gathering of the clan scheduled for Saturday afternoon in the Lowell House Common Room from 4 to 7 o'clock. Charley Vinal's Rhythm Kings will be there and "Mezz" Mezzrow is planing in from New York where be is currently featured with Art Hodes at Ryan's on 52nd Street. Those who attend the Bates game in the stadium are cordially invited to drop over after the last whistle and hear Harvard's first big-time live jam session since last September...
Baseball's Paul Bunyan is Sergeant Charley Cronin. He keeps on mowing 'em down. Last week he had won 69 straight games in three years of Army pitching (including a recent victory over Sacramento of the Pacific Coast League). The Fort Lewis (Wash.) pitcher is a 30-year-old ex-minor leaguer, who won 24, lost 19 with Springfield of the Three-I League before retiring with a sore arm. The St. Louis Browns, the Cardinals and Detroit had liked his fast ball but labeled him too frail (150 lbs.) to stand the gaff. On Army beans...