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Harvard will be emptier by 1400 men soon after February 1, the College announced yesterday after tabulating answers to the study card poll taken early in December. Fluctuating government releases and uncertainty of draft operation make a definite count impossible, but officials are sure that at least 1000 of the 3,300 now in Cambridge will fail to answer the second semester school-bell...
...poll of an average Air Corps detachment showed that out of 100 soldiers, 58 drank no alcoholic beverages, 31 only beer, eleven hard liquor...
Movie exhibitors reported that the cinemactor who had made them the most money in 1942 was a team: (Bud) Abbott & (Lou) Costello. The boisterous comics shouldered out boisterous Mickey Rooney, who slipped to fourth in the poll after leading it for three years. Second biggest moneymaker has been in the Army five months-Clark Gable, one of the top ten ever since the poll was first taken eleven years ago. Gary Cooper ran third. Newcomer to the golden gang: golden Betty Grable, who ran eighth...
...book on Roman Catholic America's monthly popularity poll is the work of a Jewish refugee from Czechoslovakia: Franz Werfel's The Song of Bernadette, which has sold half a million copies since its publication eight months ago. Many Roman Catholics have been amazed that anyone not of their faith could write so reverently and eloquently about the French girl, Bernadette Soubirous (1844-79), to whom the Blessed Virgin appeared 18 times telling her to spread the news that the waters of Lourdes had been endowed with miraculous healing powers...
...Flatfoot but fleet-footed Frankie Sinkwich, University of Georgia's galloping, pass-perfect halfback: the Associated Press annual poll for the No. 1 athlete of 1942; surpassing his nearest rival, Red Sox Outfielder Ted Williams, by 94 points to 55. Leading ground gainer this season (2,023 yards), Sinkwich sparked the Georgia Bulldogs to ten victories in eleven games...