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...driver must use split-second judgment, must take icy hairpin curves with hairline precision at 70 m.p.h., must keep his 500-lb. sled in the centre of the straightaways. Bobsled drivers are usually big, bold iron...
Motley Hollywood society tends to split clannishly along party lines (the kind of parties they go to, not the kind they belong to). There is the right little tight little English huddle, typified by their doyen, C. Aubrey Smith. They drink tea, have garden parties and play cricket. There are the tumbler-tilting Celts of Jimmy Cagney, Pat O'Brien. There is the racy crowd around Bing Crosby, the young blades of whom Mickey Rooney and Jackie Cooper are gleaming Excaliburs...
...speedy Varsity Blues of Toronto opened the barrage of scoring at 4:33 when right winger Jack Quigley split the Crimson defense and beat Freedley easily. Defense star Bob Copp shoved in another at close range a few minutes later...
...Monthly, rival literary publication. The Advocate through Nelson R. Gidding '41, secretary, denied that the Board had any intentions of sabotaging the Monthly by taking over the bulk of its membership, while at the same time Pierre Amyiot '41, speaking for the Monthly, denied any rumors of a split in the ranks...
Amyiot felt that there was not any split on the Monthly, but rather that the five editors left what they had mistaken for "a sinking ship." These who went over to the Advocate were: William Abrahams, John Felker, Harry Feltenstein, Sloan Wilson, and Cornelius Ayer Wood...