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...freshmen will have an opportunity to offset the Arena loss to BC when it meets the Englets again a week from today...
Coach Norm Shaped has been drilling his squad at every opportunity in order to offset the three week examination layoff. "We had two informal scrimmages with BU and Tufts," said Shepard, "and the team doesn't appear to have suffered too much from the exam period...
...beguiling Rosalind can do much to offset, if never quite obliterate, all this. Actress Hepburn's Rosalind reflects too much the player and too little the part. She seems the very best sort of performer -talented, cultured and good-looking-in college dramatics; she plays the whole thing more as a romp than a love story, and does beautifully by the blank verse while skating right over the poetry. William Prince makes a pleasantly lovesick Orlando, Ernest Thesiger a relentlessly melancholy Jaques...
...Fair Return." The steelworkers' new pensions and insurance alone, said Fairless, would cost U.S. Steel $3.88 a ton "and more than offset the $3.82 per ton which we hope to obtain from our price increase." Other costs were also up. Big Steel's annual fuel and freight bill, for instance, had risen by $33 million...
...fine Gallic playfulness. It improvises a quick, ingenious answer for everything, doubtless as a way of saying that there is no certain answer for anything, and that the nearest thing to release from care is a fantasy by Giraudoux. The obvious theater qualities which The Enchanted lacks are richly offset by the rare ones it has. It is rather a shame that the production has just the earthiness needed by the play, the play just the airiness needed by the production. Adapter Valency's version is good and George S. Kaufman's staging far from bad. Leueen MacGrath...