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...First string halfback and star of last year's Yale game, he has been working out regularly in spring practice sessions in Briggs Cage. His loss will be a major blow to Crimson football aspirations and when it becomes an actuality it will probably necessitate the election of a new Varsity captain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fran Lee Ordered to Report To Draft Board In June | 4/12/1941 | See Source »

...eight bars, the dirty--And I didn't know which eight bars they were gong to cut. Why don't somebody tell me these things around here? Holy--I'm going off my nut." And you'd be surprised how funny an ordinary cussword can sound with a string section background. Unfortunately this gem of Papa Bing's can be heard only on dubbings from the original master. I was fortunate enough to get one. Line forms to the right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWING | 4/12/1941 | See Source »

...Regan holds a strangle hold on the first string backstop job and in the outfield Ed Buckley, Lon Clay and Bill Hausserman are slated for regular work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASEBALL NINE ENTRAINS FOR ARMY BATTLE | 4/11/1941 | See Source »

...practice is statement in Associated Press today of Rear Admiral Russell Willson, of Naval Academy, in trying to place blame upon Director William Bingham of Harvard. A decade ago when William Bell was lineman for Ohio State, Navy pulled wires and persuaded Ohio State to send Bell, star first-string player, to scout another team the day of the Navy game. Navy has also ducked Negro members of swimming teams from Northern colleges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Comments on Naval Action | 4/10/1941 | See Source »

...Wanted Wings (Paramount] takes a trio of characters native to any military movie-the unreconstructed moneybags with a string of polo ponies (Ray Milland), the timid misfit (William Holden), the carefree clown (Wayne Morris)-and hurries them through the five-month training course at Randolph and Kelly Fields in Texas. Along with the studious documentation of a trainee's tribulations are funny and tense shots of the first shaky hours in the air, spectacular panoramas of scores of planes in formation, a gasp-making exhibition of hedgehopping over the Texas countryside. And after graduation there is a mock night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 7, 1941 | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

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