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Heeney-Delaney. Flashy Jack Delaney wears a bathrobe made of violet velvet. He is an open classic boxer, a French Canadian, a former world's light-heavyweight champion. He lives in Bridgeport, Conn. Last week in Manhattan he threw his fast left upper cut again and again onto the chin of Thomas Heeney of New Zealand. Heeney shook off the jabs, bored in. Jack Delaney danced and backed up, ducked, countered, danced and backed up. He couldn't get his right past Heeney's high left shoulder. Often he clinched. Heeney got the decision, Delaney the applause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Clinches | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...youthful Mephistopheles, the latter a leader in all the conscienceless episodes of the story to follow. Thus it is made reasonable to regard what happens as a vision to be entertained by a scholar himself. By these means the attempt is made to restore to Gounod's musical classic a dramatic illusion in story that will appeal to the intelligence and will also serve to incorporate, with the music a rational source from which that music may be seen to derive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: American Opera Company to Feature "Harvard Night" at the Hollis With Rejuvenated "Faust" | 3/7/1928 | See Source »

Harvard is particularly fortunate in having two of the biggest events of the outdor season this spring, for besides, the I. C. 4A. classic, the Olympic tryouts are scheduled to be held in the stadium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: I. C. 4A. MEET TO BE HELD IN STADIUM ON MAY 25 AND 26 | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...symbol for many estimable qualities of stage technique-loud clowning, eccentric costuming, futuristic scenery, boisterous laughter from the actors on the stage-which they, in hypersensitive hauteur, sometimes distrust. As soon as the curtain rose on Jules Remain's "intellectual farce," in France already a minor classic, they knew what to expect. Had usually able Director Richard Boleslavsky made it seem less like a pillow fight, they would have been delighted with this bumptious but bitterly satiric story of a scalawag physician who buys a country practice and makes it pay huge profits on the principle that, if people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 5, 1928 | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...next five meets the University track team worked its way up to two consecutive victories in 1926 and 1927. These were banner years for Coach E. L. Farrell's men, the Crimson runners capturing the I. C. 4A meet within a week after-running away with the Triangular classic. The winners of the six meets are as follows: 1922, Cornell; 1923, Pennsylvania; 1924, Pennsylvania; 1925, Georgetown; 1926, Harvard; 1927 Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW YORK I. C. A. A. A. A. CLASSIC HAD OFFICIAL ORIGIN SIX YEARS AGO | 2/29/1928 | See Source »

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