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...Margin for Error (by Clare Boothe; produced by Richard Aldrich & Richard Myers) breaks the jinx on anti-Nazi plays (five in a row flopped last season) by breaking the mold. Playwright Boothe makes everything Nazi-totsy by shifting her scene to the U. S., turning her tale into a lively mystery melodrama, and peppering it with wisecracks like those in The Women and Kiss the Boys Goodbye...
Laid in the German consulate of "an American city," Margin for Error dishes up a consul (admirably played by Otto L. Preminger) who-to go easy on him-steals, lies, blackmails, double-crosses and is all ready for murder. It requires, indeed, a whole act to take inventory of his villainies and when, at the end of the act, he is found dead, practically everybody in the cast has a dozen splendid reasons for being glad...
Final tabulations showed that Harvard students stand nearly four to one behind the recent Neutrality legislation, favor by a very narrow margin an immediate peace conference, but are opposed by a somewhat wider margin (236 votes) to American participation in such a conference...
John W. Lyons was re-elected mayer of Cambridge yesterday by one of the largest majorities in the city's history, while incomplete returns last night indicated that Soccer Coach John F. Carr, Jr. '28 would win a berth on the School Committee by a very comfortable margin...
...scoring took place in a wild first half which saw the lead change hands on three different occasions. A safety scored on Crimson fullback Lothrop Withington, tackled behind his own goal line after recovering a bad pass from center in the first period, proved to be the margin of victory...