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...sailor Eddie Bracken from knowing that his father, Victor Moore, is not the studio's head, but its gateman. This indirectly involves such sequences as when the Golden Gate Quartet steals the "Dreamland" number from Mary Martin and Dick Powell, a hilarious ride in a jeep, and a "Swing Shift" number with luscious brown Donna Drake swinging it in a good deal less than a shift...
About 15 men were working all last night around the University running four tractors and a truck equipped with snowplows. Another shift came on at 6 o'clock this morning and started shoveling the steps and the walks as soon as the snow stopped, Roger B. Johnson '17, superintendent of the Maintenance Department, said last night. If necessary, two additional trucks equipped with snowplows will be put in service today. Johnson said that he was using equipment sparingly because of the gasoline shortage. In the previous years extra men have been hired to meet emergencies like this one but because...
...place in the kinds of munitions ordered. There will be fewer tanks, ack-ack guns, ammunition; more planes, merchant ships and naval escort vessels. For example, the original 1943 tank program (75,000) has been cut about half, while the hope is to double aircraft and shipbuilding output. This shift in military strategy has caused a great many dislocations, some of them now surmounted. For instance...
...strutting Sharp As a Tack; Vera Zorina does a veil dance; Betty Hutton, during a wild, bruising ride in a jeep, sings a ditty known as I'm Doin' It for Defense; a shapely crew of aircraft workers sing and dance a number called On the Swing Shift. Bob Hope, closeted with an angry man in a shower bath, is good...
Cornell's speed and fast-breaking tactics kept the Harvard defense back on its heels most of the time, and when the Varsity defenders couldn't shift fast enough, the Ithacans got in for lay-up shots...