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...Trophy is a permanent plaque with a small replica, which is automatically given to the swimmer or diver scoring the most points for the Crimson team. Former winners include: Roy S. Wallace, Jr. '35 in 1935; Charles G. Hutter, Jr. '38, of Olympic fame, in 1936, 1937, and 1938; Eric Cutler '40 in 1939 and 1940; and Franny Powers...
...survivors of the crew of the U-37, a Nazi submarine sunk by air bombs in Canadian waters, run a marathon across Canada (Hudson Bay to Alberta). One (Eric Portman) goes the distance; the others are killed or captured along the way. The survivor becomes, prematurely, the darling of the Nazi radio ("one Nazi against 11,000,000 Canadians"); a lone Canadian Army private (Mr. Massey), fed up with guarding the Chippawa Canal, polishes the Nazi off in democratic fashion (fists) before he can reach the sanctuary of U.S. soil...
...SMALL FLIES AGAIN-Eric Knight -Harper...
...stories in this unpretentious book have that rare quality of truly democratic fiction: like stories by Mark Twain and Kipling and Dickens, they read even better aloud than silently, and are for almost any reader, of almost any age. Though Eric Knight invented them, they seem like genuine English folk tales. Their further virtues are rich characterizations; equal ease with fantasy and realism; dialect which is never phony, always funny...
...carried people home from work, off for shopping, to friends for a drink. Cars drew up to the Raffles Hotel and disgorged their passengers in time for the daily tea dance. Outside a cinema people lined up to see Joel McCrea and Ellen Drew in Reaching for the Sun. Eric Davis, director of the Malayan Broadcasting Corp., cracked open a letter from a gramophone concern, read that a certain tune "is unavailable for broadcast without special permission of Messrs. Walt Disney, Mickey Mouse...