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Highlight of the evening came when Vic Ehler, janitor of Matthews Hall; and one of the three judges, bowed to popular demand and did a tap dance. The other two judges were Coles Phinizy '42, president of the Lampoon, and John C. Robbins '42, president of the CRIMSON...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOLLIES ATTENDED BY 500 YARDLINGS | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

Spotted over the U. S. now are eleven FM stations privileged to operate commercially, and ten more experimental outfits. On tap are 54 applications, which FCC will shortly pass on. Liveliest developments in FM are taking place around New York City, to which FCC has allotted eleven channels. With seven of these already assigned to stations, FCC has received ten applications for the other four spots. Among those that would like to take over a place on the FM band are Joseph Medill Patterson's News, Musak, The Yankee Network, and an outfit called FM Radio Broadcasting Co., headed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Break for FM | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

Captain Frannie Simpson sent Harvard off to a 2 to 0 start after the opening tap, and the lead changed hands for several minutes. Towards the end of the first half, however, the Elis began to dominate the play and put all the pressure on the home boys, Their clever passing pulled the Crimson zone defense all over the floor and set up numerous opportunities for the Feslermen to be faked out of position...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: YALE QUINTET TOPS CRIMSON | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

...after getting that job looks like a parade course in Sociology with Oscar Homolka standing out as Vasiliev, the Bolshevik bloodhound's bloodhound. Both Clark Gable and Hedy get on the Reds' blacklist, he because his journalistic scoops have been smuggled out of Stalinland and she because her father (tap irvisaged Felix Bressart) was too nosey. But though Hedy's only a valet's daughter, she can wear as well as press the pants. Stealing a Russian tank, she leads Gable and half the Red horde in a Balkan invasion as part of one of the funniest reels in film...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Comrade X" | 3/1/1941 | See Source »

...British Parliament passed an Emergency Powers Defense Act giving the Government full control over everybody and everything. As Minister of Labor, horny-handed Ernest Bevin could -if he chose-walk into London's stuffy Athenaeum Club, tap the Archbishop of Canterbury on his bald pate and order him to Sussex to dig trenches. Having, as the London Times put it, placed "our ancient liberties ... in pawn for victory," Britons wondered what their Government intended to do about it. Last week they found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Labor Conscripted | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

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