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...scenery's great when Betty Grable, John Payne and the Canadian Rockies get together. Add a dash of technicolor and flavor with Harry James' hot trumpet and you might have something in the way of escapist fare. But "Springtime in the Rockies" barely escapes with its life after being mistreated by such cinema bogeys as lack of plot and the inability of Grable or Payne to do much more than look very much like Mr. and Miss Atlantic City...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: MOVIEGOER | 1/20/1943 | See Source »

Like his 20-year-long political career, his personal life was full of dash and fire. He once resigned from a War Minister's post to fight a duel, then took office once more the next day. In 1934 he wanted to sue the U.S. for "besmirching Argentines' reputation" in the course of a U.S. Senate investigation. When Brazil declared war on the Axis he asked for-and got-a commission as general in the Brazilian Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Death and Neutrality | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

Captain Don MacKinnon and Dave Read figure strongly in the Crimson's hopes to take the 50-yard hurdles, while MacKinnon and Fred Carr show promise in the 50-yard dash. Ted Withington will anchor the relay team against Rhode Island State, with Jim Wheeler, Wes Flint, and Dave Read running with him. Distance runner Bob Carroll, leads Northeastern's fine aggregation this year, and Rhode Island State, although hit hard by the draft, has shown consistently good performance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trackmen Will Face B. U., Northeastern | 1/15/1943 | See Source »

Dick Mechem contributed his usual solo dash for a tally early in the first period, and Earl Acker cashed in on the only penalty shot the Chasemen have been awarded all fall. Other scores are detailed below...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Swamps Wildcats; Meets Indians Tomorrow | 1/13/1943 | See Source »

...flat concerto, and Karl Muck leered over him on the conductor's stand, snapping the chords from the orchestra as a Mephistopheles would crack a whip over his minions, and the two played into each other's hands with a deviltry beyond words. Hah! The intrepidity, the dash, the saber and spur of it, the wild exhilaration, the reckless mastery of the whole business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bouquet for Moriz | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

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