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With the air of a man who suspects that his caller is playing a practical joke but is willing to string along for a while, Donaldson replied: "Yes, Mr. President." "Your boss has just resigned," said the voice. Donaldson knew that Postmaster General Bob Hannegan had just quit to buy the St. Louis Cardinals (see SPORT...
Lena Horne, a café au lait beauty, was not the kind of a girl to come onstage the way Josephine Baker had, with only a string of bananas girdling her hips. Obviously nervous, dressed in a square-shouldered white gown, Lena flashed her magnificent teeth in the spotlight and curtsied demurely. Then, as the lights went down and the rhythm began to pad out softly behind her, she slithered cosily up to the mike and began to sway. First she gave them It's Just One of Those Things in a low and sultry voice. By the time...
During the war years, when government duties carried him throughout the country, President Conant nevertheless managed to keep unbroken the string which he will snap with an empty hoe tomorrow...
...Budapest String Quartet's concert, scheduled for Sunday afternoon at Sanders Theatre, has been postponed until March 21, 1948, a spokesman for the College Orchestra announced yesterday...
Meanwhile, Boston College Coach Snooks Kelley pleaded equally serious difficulties. Center forward Warren Lewis is definitely out of the lineup due to illness, while first-string defenseman Ed Songin's status is still uncertain due to an injury received in the Holy Cross football game last Saturday. Both were all-New England and all-Arena players last year...