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...place such as New York, which invites the most obvious comparison, there is sufficient sporting activity all there is sufficient sporting activity all year round, and ample interest in all of them for the problem to be less crucial, but even Manhattan dailies, especially the tabloids, do not fall innocent of the charge. Nevertheless, it is surprising to find sheer hearsay and blatant speculation in Boston's so-called "family papers," the dailies which find their way into most living rooms, clubs, and even Harvard dining halls...
Correspondents leaped to fill in the comparison between the 1933 Hitler threat-which George Messersmith had recognized at first glance-and the present-day threat of Communism. There was no mistaking what George Messersmith meant. Like many another diplomat in Latin America, he knew that the principal cell of Communist infiltration in Latin America in the late '30s and early '40s was in Mexico, under the skilled hand of the late Constantine Oumansky. Like others, he now believes that the cell has shifted to South America, where Communists are working and organizing like beavers (see LATIN AMERICA...
Report has it that "Blue Skies" marks Fred Astaire's dancing exit from the screen. The performance of Astaire's brilliant extremities causes even the easeful singing of a portly Der Bingle to pale by comparison. Two of Astaire's routines are especially good--a top-hat-and-cane number, "Putting On The Ritz," and a technicolorful costume piece, "Heat Wave." While not quite up to the standard of his "Limehouse Blues" performance in "Ziegfield Follies," they still feature Mr. Astaire, and that, fans, will suffice...
Reactionary from the outset, in comparison to "their radical neighbors in Cambridge," the Elis in 246 years have fought off such liberal trends as dismissal in 1722 of President Timothy Cutler for "Episcopism," the abolition just prior to the Revolution of corporal punishment ("cuffing" of an offender's ears by the President), and an early nineteenth century uprising against the present student government, known mysteriously as "the Conic Sections Rebellion," to emerge in the twentieth century as the richest corporation in Connecticut, over the second-place Skull and Bones...
...Haven team is favored despite the Crimson's slight edge in percentages because the caliber of Eli opposition has been far stronger than the foes faced by the Varsity, and a comparison of scores against mutual rivals gives the Blue a definite margin of superiority--or so it would seem on paper...