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...Varsity to draw from, as well as several members of last year's Freshman squad. Wally Sears, Dave Key, and ex-Captain Johnny Crocker worked out together as forwards yesterday, as did Brom Arnold, Shaw McKean, and former Freshman Captain Dave Ab bott. Veterans Lou Preston and Charlie Coulter teamed up on defense with Pau Coste and Al Key alternating. Captain Jack Lavalle shared net-tending chores with Bill Yetman and John Munro...
Died. Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston, 83, widow of Grover Cleveland, wife of Professor Thomas Jex Preston Jr., retired Princeton archeology professor; in Baltimore. The youngest and one of the prettiest First Ladies (she was 22 when she married the President), she was the only woman ever married to a President in the White House. As New York's governor, and later as President, Cleveland showered her with roses while she was a Wells College student, married her (after months of dewy speculation by the nation's press) a year after her graduation...
Trials of Tucker. It was a mixed week for Auto Designer Preston Tucker. On the good side, the War Assets Administration extended his temporary lease on part of the huge surplus Dodge plant in Chicago for ten years. On the not-so-good side, Tucker took full-page ads to explain that his rear-engined Tucker '48 would be "coming off production lines in a matter of months"-instead of by Christmas, as he had originally announced. He was also sued for $900,000 by Harold A. Karsten, one of the organizers of Tucker's company (TIME, July...
Alan Ladd, boss of the gang, can take women or leave them alone, and believes in leaving them alone when there is work to do. Robert Preston, the gang's mechanic, can't leave them alone. He causes so much trouble chasing girls, and bootlegging wheat for chasing-funds, that he would be fired if he weren't indispensable to mechanized harvesting...
...worst of the trouble revolves around Dorothy Lamour, who is marooned on a farm but can think of only one good use for hay. She points this good use out to Ladd, who spurns her advances. So she marries Preston in order to keep in touch with her quarry. Finally Ladd and Preston slug it out in a bar and find that they mean much more to each other than the disconcerted Miss Lamour does...