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...Jones with an article in the New York World-Telegram: ". . . I knew that to be what I wanted it to be it must have a childlike candor, a simplicity, an innocence. ... I wanted the play to have a pristine quality-to look like a fresh-minted dime and to spin like one. I think it does...
Every good figure skater can do a Jackson Haines spin, the showy sit-spin that has helped make ice shows a popular U. S. entertainment. But few U. S. skaters know much about Jackson Haines, the father of figure skating. Jackson Haines was not the first skater to trace a pattern on ice. As far back as 1642, there was a skating club in Edinburgh, whose membership was confined to those who could "skate a complete circle on each foot and jump over first one, then two, then three hats." In 1863, when Haines won the figure-skating championship...
Nanking University, now moved some 900 miles west to Chengtu, has faced similar problems. Its organizers have taught thousands of refugee peasants to help themselves and China by training them to work portable bamboo spinning wheels, spin wool yarn for army blankets. Only outside materials the program needs are steel for spindles and aluminum for spinning forks. These come from shot-down Japanese airplanes. Thus far the supply of metal has been quite adequate...
City for Conquest (Warner). With the help of Thornton Wilder, Hollywood gratefully learned a new way to spin a yarn. In Our Town, cinematized last spring, wise-eyed Frank Craven appeared on the screen as a rustic sage drawling philosophic comments on the passing events...
Last week the 535 men & women who had qualified for the Ben Paris-Seattle Star final rowed out into Elliott Bay. Japanese are barred (because they are too skillful). So are outboard motors. Contestants are permitted to troll (drag lure through the water) or spin (cast from anchored boat). In each boat is an "observer" supplied by a rival fisherman to prevent petty cheating...