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...first-string backfield ravaged by graduation and the draft and his coaching staff riddled by the loss of "Skip" Stahley and Wes Fesler, Head Coach Dick Harlow faced a complete task of rebuilding from the bottom up as his Varsity football squad got their shoulder pads and jerseys out of the mothballs for the opening of spring practice yesterday afternoon...
Week before the Thompson shift General Hugh S(amuel) Johnson walked out on Scripps-Howard's United Feature Syndicate (which discovered his unsuspected literary talents six years ago), signed up (at a reputed $50,000 a year) with Hearst's King Features. Explained the General, whose string has fallen more than 10% since election and his strong isolationist stand: "Some Scripps-Howard papers didn't seem to be very-sympathetic and I didn't want them to have to carry the column when they didn't want to." One such paper was the Tyler...
Nice Girl? (Universal) abruptly halts the string of eight pleasant, sprightly tuneful Deanna Durbin films which have been the financial anchor of Universal Pictures Co. for the last four years. In it, grinning little Producer Joe Pasternak, who has nurtured Deanna like a prize petunia, has gone wildly askew with a somnolent essay on bourgeois life in a small New England town...
Hall has just made four twelve-inch sides for Blue Note Records, playing in a quartet which includes Meade Lux Lewis on celeste, Charlie Christians on electric guitar, and Israel Crosby on string bass. The combination, as you can see, is quite exceptional, and the music is awfully interesting. The four tunes, "Profoundly Blue," "Celestial Express," "Jamming in Four," and "Edmond Hall Blues" are all blues, two slew and two fast, and Hall is the star on everyone, although Lux Lewis' delicate celeste work is an unusual departure from the heavy beat of ordinary boogie-woogie Collectively, the boys weave...
...Yardling's second line comes through as it has in the past, and if Captain Reeves is well enough to swing a stick, the 1944 pucksters can look foreward to adding Yale to their string of victims. But if they are without Reeves, and have to count on a less reliable defense, it will be anyone's game...