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Last week the international union acted by removing pudgy, hawk-nosed Sam Kaplan as boss of Local 306. The removal came while Kaplan was defending himself and his union rule in Manhattan Supreme Court on a receivership-and-damage suit filed by four members of Local 306. During the trial...
Take a Chance (book by Bud G. De Sylva & Laurence Schwab; music by Nacio Herb Brown, Richard Whiting. Vincent Youmans; Laurence Schwab, producer) is fast, noisy, funny. It reverts to the pre-Depression type of musicomedy, makes no pretense of smartness but loses no entertainment value by its atavism. Buried...
Although last year's team did not pile up a particularly impressive list of victories, it came very close to beating such teams as Navy, to which it lost by two points, it was nosed out by a strong Pittsburgh quintet by only three points, and was downed by the...
On a gusty December day in 1903, on the slope of a sand dune on a North Carolina coastal reef, Orville Wright started the tiny engine of a flimsy biplane, crawled aboard the lower wing and lay prone at the crude controls. The machine began to move. Brother Wilbur ran...
It was fourth down, 4 yd. to the Minnesota goal line, with 36 seconds of the first half to play. Harry Newman dropped back for a high place kick that missed hitting the goalpost by just enough to give Michigan the game which clinched the Big Ten Championship 3-to...