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...title to some effect, but this time they have thrown it away on a completely lackluster show. Alternating undistinguished sketches with indistinguishable tunes, gaudy spectacles with soggy satire, young legs with old gags, handsome clothes with jitterbug clatter, it is just the Shuberts' old Winter Garden formula to cop the summer trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musicals in Manhattan, Apr. 12, 1943 | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

After two very close rounds, Jim Raffl, of Kirkland, poured on the heat to cop the 135 lb. decision from Johnny Frenning of Leverett. In what looked like a preview of the House wrestling tournament which is to take place next week, Gordie chase of Leverett, defeated Kirkland's Lew Krohn in the 145 lb final...

Author: By Wallace I. Green, | Title: Leverett Wins House Boxing Tournament | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

Tiger Norm Zheutlin should cop the 200-yard breast stroke, with Charlie Gantner of Rutgers very much in the race. The 440 should see another Rogers-Glynn-Barnes-Christman tussle, while the high board diving event figures to be pretty much a repeat performance of the low board. Final event of the card, the 400-yard relay, sees a host of good quartets, not the least of whom is Amherst, champion in the New England Intercollegiates a week...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: 18 COLLEGES HERE IN INTERCOLLEGIATES | 3/19/1943 | See Source »

...Cop Copped. In Chicago, Patrolman Lynn Scott, author of a manual on the proper behavior of policemen, was arrested for attempting to sell stolen ration books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 8, 1943 | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

Varsity improved over their last outing, the Crimson skaters whipped the Army sextet 6 to 1 Saturday afternoon on the Cadets' rink, thereby still holding a slim mathematical chance to cop the Pentagonal League crown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHASEMEN ROUND BACK INTO FORM WITH CRUSHING 6-1 DEFEAT OF ARMY | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

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