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Although the war has necessitated a curtailment in sports activities, the H. A. A. announced yesterday that it had approved spring schedules for crew, lacrosse, and track. There are no long trips included in these schedules, the longest being a crew journey to Philadelphia...
Pete Brown and Frankie Newton were the heroes of the day, Brown working the hardest and longest, and playing better than ever before, Newton saving the concert at an awkward moment with superb showmanship. The finest music in the session came when they jammed together with three former members of Frankie's band, the Trottman brothers on piano and bass, and Billy Mason on drums. The outfit blended perfectly and the ensembles were terrific...
...Random Harvest, broke all records for a single house: in an eleven-week run (one week longer than Mrs. Miniver) at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, it had played to more than 1,550,000 people. Another Manhattan record: Star Spangled Rhythm finished an eight-week run, longest in the huge Paramount Theater's history. Yankee Doodle Dandy ran 27 weeks on Broadway; Casablanca was in its 15th...
...problem is that most of these improvements are the developments and properties of the U.S. Driven by war's necessities, the U.S. has developed its passion for big aircraft (beginning with bombers) beyond airmen's most purple dreams. Cast by war as operator of its longest supply routes, the U.S. has literally been driven into the world transport business...
...also losing his health; high blood pressure forced the longest holiday of his life (two months) in Italy, where with considerable interest he read up on the sources of Fascism. By 1927 a doctor told him: "If I had met you . . . five years ago, I could have saved you it all by sending you off on a bout of dissipation-all the great creators of the past were devils. Drink and women have saved many a man from death and madness." (Hone adds, in the book's prettiest footnote: "An Irish doctor...