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...melodrama is England's roly-poly, impish-eyed Director Alfred Hitchcock (The 39 Steps, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Secret Agent). Last year, flushed with cinema success and much hearty beef-eating, Director Hitchcock decided to try one of his thrillers against the placid background of the English countryside. Said he: "I want to commit murder amid babbling brooks." The result teams 18-year-old Nova Pilbeam and Play Actor Derrick de Marney in a melodramatic hodge-podge that lacks the vivid outlines and clear characterizations of previous Hitchcock films, but is, nevertheless, a fair sample of Hitchcock...
With a string of nine victories to their credit, the undefeated Yardling sextet meets Exeter, winter of the Lake Placid hockey tourney, this afternoon on Arena ice at 2:30 o'clock...
Although the Yardlings have an imposing number of victories, Coach Clark Hodder is not overly optimistic. Exeter has defeated a strong Yale Freshman team 4-1, and has held the Dartmouth Freshmen to a three goal margin in addition to winning the Lake Placid meet...
...Lake Placid meet during Christmas vacation, in which the Crimson skimen trailed Dartmouth and Williams in third place, revealed two good jumpers in Richard Whittemore '40 and Emerson, who took fourth and fifth places respectively, Emerson and William Hinton '41 finished well up in the cross country and downhill events, while Peter T. Brooks '38 and Hinton took sixth and eighth places in the slalom...
...less experienced half of the Dartmouth squad traveled to New York's Lake Placid, to face eight other Eastern college teams in the Lake Placid Club's annual invitation tournament. The first day curly-haired Ed Meservey won the cross-country race, followed by two Dartmouth teammates in second and third place. Next day Ed Wells, who had won the slalom the day before, placed first in the downhill. On the final day Meservey placed second in the ski jump, which gave him first place in the combined cross-country & jump, brought Dartmouth's score...