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Although the Cornell nine is batting only .218 as a team, shortstop Walt Johnson is hitting at a .357 clip followed by Captain Rudy Doering, third baseman and cleanup hitter, with an average...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dave Shean Will Twirl for Crippled Crimson Nine Against Cornell Team Today; Ingalls to Face Dartmouth Tomorrow | 5/14/1937 | See Source »

...time when the American film audiences are in need of a few pictures about fallen women. American morals, especially New York morals, especially the morals of rich New Yorkers and provincials visiting New York, are definitely low, as everybody knows. If they were not, there would be no "clip joint" racketeers like the one who is the villian of this piece. If he were not in it Miss Davis could not be wronged. And that is her specialty, the thing she does before all other actresses realistically playing the wronged and fallen woman...

Author: By M. F. E., | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 5/14/1937 | See Source »

...game started off at a fast clip and not until the last half of the third period did the players tire perceptively. Feeling ran high from the start, with many penalties being called on both sides. The rugged body checks of Francis and Roosevelt were mainly responsible for this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Harvard Hockey Teams Score Five Goals Apiece in Routing Yale Sextets on Garden Ice | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

...longest skiing season in New England is at Mansfield in Stowe, Vermont. A new ski tow has been installed and open slopes have been cleared on the lower part of the mountain. Chin Clip, Smuggler's Notch, and Nose Dive trails are all expert runs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Column | 1/15/1937 | See Source »

...operative movement of California. It is a typical Sinclair novel. It has a good deal of the sunny, buoyant, irrepressible uplift spirit that has distinguished all his writing since he published The Jungle in 1906, the journalistic flare that keeps even his crusading potboilers rattling along at a good clip, a large cast of those singleminded, two-dimensional, easily-stirred individuals who seem to be more frequently encountered in Sinclair's fiction than anywhere else. The co-operative at San Sebas tian, Calif, grows out of a discussion in 1932 among a group of unemployed living in shanties they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No. 43 | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

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