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...headline-"Mrs. Buckley Joyce Thomas captured by China bandits''-which shows that Thomas is still up to his trick of faking stories. A more important change-making Buckley Joyce Thomas the hero of a farce instead of the butt of a satire-is less fortunate but three crack performances (Lee Tracy as Thomas, James Gleason as his secretary, Eugene Sigaloff as Prince Alexander) help make the picture briskly entertaining...
...leading scorer. Nikkei-more stockily built than the picture of a star basketballer-is not so fast as O'Connell but he has a disconcerting soft throw that on his best night this season piled up 22 points against Penn. Yale's coach, Elmer Ripley, was a crack professional on the Celtics before 1929. Since he went to New Haven-possibly also because famed Albie Booth was on his 1931 team-bas-ketball has grown so popular at Yale that the 2,200 handsome chairs in the new Payne Whitney Gymnasium are not enough for the crowds. Next...
...five years. Oregon State's 6-ft-5-in. captain and centre, Ed Lewis, league record-breaking scorer, had a week to get ready for the tip-off against the next best centre on the coast, Southern California's Lee Guttero and U. S. C.'s crack forward, Jerry ("Little Nemo") Nemer...
Having broken a winch while sounding the Caribbean and adjacent Atlantic, Eldridge Reeves Johnson's yacht Caroline put into San Juan, P. R. last week. Immediately Dr. Paul Bartsch, Smithsonian naturalist, sped ashore to report the discovery of the greatest known crack in earth, a deep of 44,000 ft. (8.33 mi.) just north of Puerto Rico. Also off Puerto Rico is the Nares Deep (27,972 ft., or 5.30 mi.), greatest previously known hole in the Atlantic.* Both deeps lie in a lively seismic zone, indicate how the earth's crust warps and cracks...
Because of the brilliant performance of Kari Warner of Yale, Harvard's crack relay team met defeat Saturday evening at the 44th annual B.A.A. games in the Garden. He started on his anchor leg eight yards behind Captain Philip Dodge, and won largely through a terrific burst of speed on the back stretch of the second lap, by a margin of two yards. Locke, Calvin, and Morse were the other Crimson runners. The time was 3 minutes, 27 seconds...