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...Communist reaction to it. Wrote the Manchester Guardian: "Mr. Pollitt was on his mettle, for this is the first conference since the Party became entirely respectable. It was a speech that would have adorned the chair at any Labor Party conference. It breathed the highest patriotism and the sweetest of moderation. The references to the war were fervid, those to Russia not overdone...
...beer business. To replace him, Manager Lester Patrick brought from his Regina (Saskatchewan) kindergarten a 21-year-old named Jim ("Sugar") Henry. Henry has never' played anything but amateur hockey. But rinkfans who saw him guard the Ranger nets to two victories last week voted Sugar Jim the sweetest rookie to come up to the big-time in years. He may do more than his share toward keeping the Boston Bruins from skating off with the National Hockey League championship again this year...
Though Jones was the hero, Pitt's victory was sweetest for John Gabbert Bowman, its 64-year-old chancellor. When Educator Bowman became head of the university in 1921, he discovered that alumni seemed more interested in a better football team than better teachers. Alumni insisted on building a bowl seating 70,000, getting one of the best football coaches money could buy (Jock Sutherland), and getting players much the same way. In the early '30s, Pitt football teams became fabulously powerful. Rival coaches whispered that Pitt players, besides getting free tuition and books, received a salary...
...Army Chorus (Keynote). Eight military and folk songs proving that the U.S.S.R.'s fighting men also sing in a big way. Tachanka, ballad of Budenny's horse-drawn machine guns, is the most stirring; Meadowland has the sweetest melody...
Last week Britain's armed forces got their youngest and sweetest general. Mrs. Jean Knox, 33, a neat brunette with quick blue eyes and smileable lips which she colors vermilion, took over as Chief Controller (feminine counterpart of Major General) of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (feminine counterpart of the Army...