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Tunes of Glory (Colin Lesslie; Lopert). Up at the castle the pipers are piping a jig for Jock Sinclair. Rank: acting C.O. of a Highland battalion. Origin: wrong side of Glasgow. Military record: rose through the ranks, took command of the battalion at El Alamein. led it to glory. Personal data: has hair like ginger and a temper to match. Remarks: Jock loves the battalion, the battalion loves Jock, and the paughty people who see this picture will love him too. because Jock Sinclair is one of the most lifelike creatures that ever sprang full-snooted from the jovial brow...
...aging Teamsters-selling the lots at prices ranging from $150 to $1,000. Customers were assured, continued the indictment, that the lots were "all on high, dry and rolling land," when in fact many were "so low and permeated with water as to make them unsuitable" for building. Thus rank-and-file Teamsters were high-pressured and hornswoggled into buying back, at inflated prices, the land that had been purchased with Teamster funds. At the same time, said the Florida grand jury, Hoffa and his pals were using Sun Valley profits for their personal benefit...
...Plough and the Stars (by Sean O'Casey) stands in the very first rank of modern plays. Among O'Casey's own, only Juno and the Paycock can challenge it; but though Juno has more memorable characters and richer comedy, its tragedy is dented with willful, stagy melodrama, where in The Plough and the Stars, tragedy and comedy are locked in an unshatterable embrace. In The Plough O'Casey found, if no better materials for tragedy, then an apter moment. Under the stress of turbulent historic events, amid the gunfire and bloodshed of the 1916 Easter...
...program. "I am now very sorry I ever heard of Soph Standing: I get the impression that I may spend the rest of my school days trying to make the best of what turned out to be a pretty raw deal. I may just fail too, judging from the rank list...
Quarterback: Norman Snead, 21, Wake Forest; 6 ft. 4 in., 208 Ibs. Although Snead was snubbed by the wire-service All-Americas, the pros call him "a pure passer" with the advantage of enough height to look over the offensive line. Right behind Snead the scouts rank North Carolina State's Roman Gabriel, 20 (6 ft. 3 in., 215 Ibs.), who is a junior. While the pros admire the all-round ability of Mississippi's Jake Gibbs, the first-stringer on most All-Americas, they generally rate both Snead and Gabriel as better passers for the N.F.L...