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...Texas, Southwest Conference teams have developed a football style of their own. It is florid and spectacular, a gambler's style, based on passes and pure speed. Last month experts thought Rice, Conference champion last year, with an available first string weighing one long ton (2,240 lb.), had the strongest concentration of football manpower in the U. S. Then Southern Methodist became high-scoring team of the country with 148 points to 6 against four opponents. In the Dallas game that seemed likely to mean at least a Conference title to the winner last week...
...America's best-known show house (rental: $104,000 a year). He hired actors like Jimmy Durante, Arthur Sinclair, Blanche Ring for his star parts. And, catching them when they needed money, he contracted with Playwrights Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur to write a libretto on which he could string his circus acts, stars and tunes. Messrs. Hecht & MacArthur repaired for a fortnight last winter to Suite No. 21, Villa Marguerita, Charleston, S. C., the exact spot where they turned out their memorable Front Page and 20th Century...
...until that time arrives, Metropolitan may be considered as one of the best examples of its sort yet screened. Its story varies from pattern in that the hero triumphs on the stage, not of the Metropolitan in Manhattan but of a rival company in Philadelphia. Furthermore, Metropolitan has a string of less negative qualities to recommend it. Its screen play, by Bess Meredyth and George Marion Jr., is unfailingly light-hearted and literate. Its score, though a potpourri of operatic and concert-stage favorites, is well chosen. Its cast includes Alice Brady, Virginia Bruce and Luis Alberni. Its star...
...Defendant Shushan had exacted personal tribute of 2? per cubic yard from the contractors who dredged the fill for his airport and seawalls. When the quiet, incisive prosecutor twice referred to these payments as "graft," Counsel Wilkinson leaped up, demanded a mistrial. He was overruled. On the stand a string of dredging company officials supported and elaborated the Government's charge, pieced together a devious tale of threats and intimidation, of large cash sums passed quietly to Shushan or his go-betweens. Loudly Counsel Wilkinson protested that these "rebates" were simply campaign contributions which passed through Shushan...
Newshawks scurried to the University, which readily admitted that 13 out of 57 footballers actually hold State jobs. Typical were John Kabealo, first-string fullback, receiving $1,040 per year as a part-time employe in the Sales Tax Division, and John Bettridge, first-string halfback, drawing $3 per day as a page in the State Legislature...