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...food consumed in the U.S.S.R. is now rationed. What little is left over from collectivized-farm quotas brings fantastic prices. Eggs, spread like jewels on the counters of Moscow's crowded Central Market, sell at more than $3 each. Milk has sold at $5.50 a cupful. A peck of potatoes costs...
...members include: W. D. Brown '46, W. H. Bozman '46, L. E. Cooke '44, W. W. Dunn '46, R. F. Hardwood '44, G. R. Hooper '45, J. G. Murphy '46, B. Nugent 46, D. G. Ofsthun '46, C. J. Peck '45, S. E. Stuart 2nd '45, P. Troen...
...July 4, 64 years ago, when Jerry and Nellie Cohan had $1 between them. At eight he was fiddling in the orchestra for a thriller "so melodramatic they had to pump blood out of the cellar before they could finish the third act." At 13 he played lead in Peck's Bad Boy, He was always part of The Four Cohans-once voted the most popular act in vaudeville. Cocky and conceited, he was a hellion in his youth. "Great actors are born," he said once. "I know. I was born...
...Exonians had the second period all to themselves, however, making two tallies to leave the Freshmen in the dust 12 to 7. Bill Peck, driving around Harvard's flank, made the first. Ernie Ransome piled through the Crimson center to score the second and turn the score in favor of Exeter. Both extra points failed...
...Yank at Eton (M.G.M.). Timothy Dennis (Mickey Rooney) is as American as Peck's Bad Boy, and a good deal noisier. He did not want to go to Eton, but when his mother (Marta Linden) marries an Englishman (Ian Hunter) Timothy can't escape it. Right off he makes friends with a cute little Lord (Raymond Severn), whom he calls Inky, and an enemy of Ronnie Kenvil (Peter Lawford). Tim's stepbrother Peter (Freddie Bartholomew) tries to arbitrate, but Tim doesn't like Peter either. By the end of term he has democratically banged his head...