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Although the Freshman schedule has not as yet been drawn up, Exeter and the Yale Freshman will be included. It is with Exeter that the Crimson, in January, open its season. Yale has always been a hard nut to crack, and for the last three years the Blue has defeated the Crimson squash men. But with a big, cagor squad. Jack Barnaby expects victory over the traditional victory...
...pistol crack set 129 pairs of legs into motion. For 200 yd. the pack of runners awkwardly angled across the springy turf like a vast centipede, then spread-eagled as the pace slackened. The legs plodded up Van Cortlandt Park's hilly course, coasted around to the starting field. Spectators, paying little attention to the wiry, green-jerseyed leader, No. 129, carefully watched Pennsylvania's smooth-striding Gene Venzke in 15th place...
...Grand Fleet, "Hero of Jutland"; of a chill caught at Armistice Day ceremonies; in London. Admiral-of-the-Fleet Jellicoe was told in 1914 that he alone had the power to "lose the War in an afternoon." The afternoon when the overpowering British Grand Fleet met the crack German High Seas Fleet in the Skagerrak entrance to the Baltic Sea proved to be May 31, 1916. To 19 years of accusations that he bungled the Battle of Jutland, the War's only fleet engagement, Jellicoe's reply has been that he did not lose the War, even though...
Mother (adapted by Bert Brecht; Theatre Union, producer). The Red Russians may run their trains off the rails and foolishly crack up their super-airships, but their Revolutionary Theatre, with more than 50 houses filled every night in Moscow and stock companies by the hundreds performing throughout the provinces, is by all odds the world's most active and inventive. With an imitative eye on its spiritual mother, the Theatre Union has produced Mother, adapted from Maxim Gorky's novel of an illiterate old woman (Helen Henry)* who, once she gets the hang of things, turns...
...other crack Chrysler executives involved in the conspiracy charges were considered "unreliable witnesses," the letters of one being "thoroughly dishonest." Though Mr. Chrysler "admitted far more than enough" to indicate full knowledge of the deal, he was cleared of any direct part in it. But Sir Cyril shook his bewigged head. "Mr. Chrysler is said to be one of the foremost industrialists in America," he declared. "Some of his answers show that his standard of business morality is lamentably low. . . . The less said about honor in this case the better...