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...high-board dive, repeating his low-board performance, and was the only Harvard man to place in Saturday's events. Al Patnik of Ohio State won the three-meter test with 161.32 points, an incredibly high total, and was more than 32 points ahead of his teammate Earl Clark. Hal Benham, of Michigan was third...
Although shorn of their E. I. L. crown, Hal Ulen's mermen led the way with a .786 percentage on 11 wins and three losses, while Rene Percy's fencers were right on their heels with a .750 rating in eight matches. Not included in the year's summary is the track team, which climaxed a very successful indoor season by copping the Quad meet from a strong Cornell squad...
...champion is endangered by N. Y. U. and the Crimson, who walked away with top honors in this division in the pentagonals. Paul Perlowin of last year's Eli foils titlists remains, but A1 Labastie, Cranny Jones, and Art Jaros will hold up the Harvard side of things. Epeemen Hal Park and Bill Croach should be among the leading contenders for their division crown, and Tom Wright and Captain Skip Batchelder rate up with the high ranking saber artists...
...tour the Orpheum circuit as a boxer, did pick-&-shovel work in Montana mines, returned to Hollywood, where a chance meeting with Director Tod Browning got him into the cinema industry. That was in 1918. Two years later, McCarey got a job as gag man and writer for Hal Roach which he held for a decade. In 1933 he went to Paramount, earned a place as one of the industry's top-notch directors with Ruggles of Red Gap, Make Way for Tomorrow. In 1937 The Awful Truth won him the Academy Prize for direction, an RKO contract...
Concerned with nothing more than the romantic meeting and somewhat prolonged courtship of a European fortune hunter (Charles Boyer) and a Kansas-bred nightclub singer (Irene Dunne), it frequently falters in pace. It also includes a few sequences which, reminiscent of Director McCarey's work for Hal Roach, are among the most adroit cinematic touches of the year. Good shot: Irene Dunne, prevented from getting married to Boyer when a car cripples her legs, waking up to fave the consequences in a hospital...