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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Yale barely nosed out Williams for third place in the field of 12 colleges. Competition was close throughout the whole meet, but Eddie Gignac, diminutive all-around Kanone from the Black Panther squad, was far above the rest of the boys in winning the Ski Moister trophy, awarded to the best four-event skier...
Bobby James and Johnny Rigby will probably start at the guard positions in their first assignments of the year, although Bud Finegan may get one place, Ed Rothschild at center and BILL Webber and Captain Charley Lutz at the forwards will make up the rest of the starters...
This reviewer has the pleasure of spending some time last week discussing the whole thing with Mr. Vinton Freedley, who is producing it, and his wife, who brought the book to his attention at the outset. In the first place, the Hawkins story is just another example of press agentry; Hawkins had been considered casually and that's all. No contracts had been signed for him, and at the time I talked to him Mr. Freedley was trying to get Louis Armstrong; If Louis wanted too much and it was felt his voice wasn't good enough, he was going...
...token of her sovereignty, last week the Coq Rouge gave Patricia Plunkett a beauty kit. To Runner-Up Patricia Suydam (daughter of Realtor Hendrick Suydam & Mrs. Richard A. Cunningham) went a flacon of Hawaiian perfume. To Ridgeley Vermilye of Plainfield, N. J., well back in third place, went a new hat. Meanwhile, 1938 Glamor Girl Brenda Frazier, home from Nassau for Christmas, was seen as usual at Manhattan's La Conga in the morning's early hours. Her current escort is Cartoonist Curtis Arnoux Peters (Peter Arno), twice divorced...
...Arrowhead but an oldtimer. On its site for 34 years stood a creaky, bulbous-Victorian hotel building. Soon after Paley & friends bought the place (including 1,800 acres of ground) for $800,000, a fire destroyed the old building, which they would have had to tear down, left them richer by $277,671 in insurance. To lay out the new buildings Architects Gordon Kaufman and Paul Williams were hired, turned out an imposing, 69-room hunk of hotel (late Californian with a Southern Georgian trace), plunked on a handsome mountainside. To dress it up inside, Decorator Dorothy Draper was brought...