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...happens that the All-American, All-Ivy backfield come to Pottawatomie as bodyguard (with strict hands-off contract) for Lucille Ball, the hardest woman to handle since Lucretia Borgia. She and Frances Langford carry the torch songs while P. U., playing against Columbia, Pitt, and even Cornell, becomes the highest team in America in points scored--for and against. Fourth Horseman Desi Arnaz, an argentine, prairie wolf, shows possibilities of becoming the greatest threat to American womanhood since the fourteen-day diet. And Harvard's quarterback, Eddie Bracken, (who knocked down more passes in 1939 than any American except Ginger...
Explaining a special rule announced last Spring, Miss Spidell said that students who break a contract with the College for a House room without a "legitimate" reason are assessed a $50 fine. The ruling does not effect students in Houses who do not apply in February for a reassignment, she added...
Mindful of this inherent slowness. Bill Knudsen has placed every gun contract his program calls for but one. The cost (with ammunition): $995,836,660. More depressing is the machine-gun outlook. Colt, the only U. S. builder, is working almost full time for the British. Three General Motors plants are tooling up to plug the gap, but quantity production of machine guns is a year to 14 months away. The Army is now getting 2,000 Garand semi-automatic rifles a week, confidently expects 5,000 weekly by Jan. 1, 1941, but at that rate it would require four...
...Having forsaken NBC because his former sponsor Bristol-Myers insisted that his hour show be reduced to 30 minutes, he starts on a CBS network for Texas Co. opposite Eddie Cantor on NBC. This season, as Bristol-Myers' substitute for Allen, Cantor will be spurred on by a contract that calls for a flat $10,000 a week, an extra $200 for every point over 20 he registers with C. A. B. (Crossley). Whatever his incentive, the going will be tough. With only half the time on NBC that Allen has on CBS, Cantor will have to buck...
...obligation which Marshall Field did not offer to assume was Ralph Ingersoll's five-year contract which gave him the reins for five years. But Marshall Field was in full agreement with Publisher Ingersoll, indicated he expected to keep him on and let him acquire some of the new company's stock...