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...pivot post, lanky Jack Fisher should give a good account of himself for all his lack of game experience. Flanking him will be two more second-year men, chunky Sid Smith and Boston's Charlie Gudaitis, whose Cinderella rise to the first-string end on Chief Boston's Yardling eleven last year caught the fan- cies of the in-town sports editors...
...three-cornered one between Wayne Johnson, Tom Cowen, and Paul Perkins. Everyone expected Cowen and Johnson to be fighting it out even before practice started, but Perkins is a comparative dark horse who has crept up to a position where he is a definite contender for the first string fullback berth...
Married. Stripteuse Rose Louise Hovick ("Gypsy Rose Lee"), woman of letters (The G-String Murders); and Actor Alexander Kirkland, stage uncle of Junior Miss; he for the first time, she for the second (her first was Robert Mizzy, dental supplier); at midnight in her home at Highland Mills, N.Y. Best man was high-domed Pulitzer Prizewinning Littérateur Carl Van Doren. Gypsy, in a black crepe dress, black shoes & stockings, wore real grapes in her hair. Man & wife went off on a honeymoon "as far as our gas will hold...
Around these sleek contemporary figures, Novelist Powell groups a host of minor characters as bright and synthetic as a string of dime-store diamonds. Together they create an illusion of Manhattan high life a year or so before Pearl Harbor. "A sucker age," Novelist Powell calls it, "an age for any propaganda, any cause, any lie, any gadget." Gold-digging Amanda and Julian have but a single aim - to keep themselves on top. They are interested in making money, but more in the power that money gives. Even sex, when it is not a means to an end, is hardly...
...come. After all, there was nothing to see but a trading post. But Hoge had other ideas. Alaska was a transportation island linked with the U.S. by a moving bridge of ships-ships now needed desperately elsewhere. Hoge knew that Fort Nelson could be one of a string of airports connecting Edmonton to the Aleutians. He knew that with such a string and with a road to supply them, Alaska could be held; knew also that with Jap islands blockading Vladivostok such a route might well be the only way to send adequate help to an attacked Siberia. The Army...