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...story, "Crack up," on the credit side are found the perennial, satisfactorily sinister Teuton, Peter Lorre, and a new scene for a climax, an airplane floating on the Atlantic Ocean. Unfortunately, uninterrupted dialogue of a third or four the hand nature makes the total insultingly familiar. We found ourselves speaking the actors' lines in advance...
...Leet poopooed the feeling prevalent in Cambridge that the shakes presage the crack of doom and are a direct result of the Roosevelt administration...
Easily outclassing Navy's swimming team, the crack Varsity mermen pulled out of the pool at Annapolis with a soaking triumph of 60-15 in an Eastern Intercollegiate League meet last Saturday. The Harvards took both of the relay races in stride and continued on to place first in six out of seven individual events. The Midshipmen placed first in fancy diving, alone...
...outsider than an insider. Last week the administrators of Tulane University in New Orleans turned their backs on that precedent as Yale did last month (TIME, Feb. 22), by electing as Tulane's next president Dr. Rufus Carrollton Harris, the 39-year-old Dean of Tulane's crack law school...
Major event on the schedule of the Amateur Athletic Union's indoor track & field championships last week was the 1,500-metre run, with Glenn Cunningham, 1936 Olympic runner-up and Luigi Beccali. 1932 Olympic champion, heading a crack field. A mysterious ailment, described by its victim as "like tonsillitis except that I haven't any tonsils." kept Cunningham on the sidelines. His Kansas confrere, Archie San Romani, music student at Kansas State Teachers College, won the race from Beccali by a foot, with Pennsylvania's Gene Venzke third...