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...bounce. Hollywood gave him higher walls to scale, longer ropes to swing on, scores more swordsmen to engage in single-handed combat. His first picture, The Lamb, jumped his first ten-week contract, under puttee-wearing Director David Wark Griffith, from $2,000 a week to a three-year contract at $4,000 a week, typed him for life as an acrobatic comedian. Grinning, he slashed, sprang and flew through such cinema classics as Robin Hood, The Thief of Bagdad, The Three Musketeers, The Black Pirate...
...three-year experiment of holding the meet at Randalls Island in New York has shown itself to be unsuccessful, and for this reason the games return next spring to Soldiers Field. The last Intercollegiate A.A.A.A. meet to be staged at Harvard...
...Sheldon Prize Fellowship of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Dr. Lewis Dexter, Harvard A.B. '32, M.D. '36, won a William Hunter Workman Scholarship at the Harvard Medical School; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, was named a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows, on a three-year term; Herbert E. Wright Jr. '39, won the George H. Emerson Scholarship at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...considerably more of it goes into its double-sized bottle than into a bottle of Coca-Cola). But it will have to be a long war. Last month, with a year's supply on hand or under contract, Pepsi-Cola extended its war hedge, contracted for a full three-year supply. Meanwhile, there has been no indication that Loft's restaurant chain has ceased to lose money. But, with Loft stock selling as high as 16 5/8 even in last week's war-depressed market, Phoenix had $6,000,000 paper profit on its options...
Last week Joe Yule, who has done bits in Idiot's Delight and two other recent pictures, was signed to a three-year contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Mickey's home lot. Salary: $100 a week, $25 more than he was earning at the Follies. Promptly assigned a bit as a stagehand in Fast and Furious with Franchot Tone and Ann Sothern, Joe Yule modestly remarked: "My ambition is to be as much of a success in the movies as I was on the stage...