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...business meeting before the program, George P. Gardiner '10, will be elected president of the club to succeed E. A. Taft '04, who has just completed a three-year term in office. Leverett Saltonstall '14, will become vice-president, and Alexander Wheeler '08, will take over the office of secretary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Tops Speakers' List At Harvard Club's Birthday Dinner; Williams Also Talks | 3/30/1938 | See Source »

Unprecedented in the ten years of Academy prize-giving was Actress Rainer's second successive Oscar in a three-year film career. She won last year's for her portrayal of Anna Held in The Great Ziegfeld. Sandy, rough-cut Actor Spencer Tracy, recovering in a Los Angeles hospital from a hernia operation, wept when told he had won. Last year's Oscar to Actor Paul Muni (Louis Pasteur) disappointed many who thought Actor Tracy deserved it for a row of consistently fine jobs (among them: Father Tim in San Francisco, Joe Wilson in Fury). When this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Oscars | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

Cowles has seen all squash's greats, and coached most of them. "Comparisons are never satisfactory," he says, "particularly by a coach," but mentions Germaine Glidden's three-year victory in the nationals as one of the foremost feats in the history of the court game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Court Defeat by Elis a Sign of Growing Pains, Says Coach | 3/17/1938 | See Source »

When Cuba revived constitutional government in 1936, after a three-year lapse, the constitution provided that half the lower chamber be renewed every two years. Some months ago the members drew lots to determine those who would serve the short two-year term and at last week's balloting a majority of the unlucky holders were up for reelection. All the candidates, although they represented seven parties, were pledged to Batista and his Three-Year Plan. Cuban voters were so apathetic that less than 30% of the electorate went to the polls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: 30% for Batista | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...sophomore year, Forward Luisetti scored 32 points in 32 minutes during a Conference championship game. The same year he tallied 24 points in eleven minutes. In two years of varsity play (sophomore and junior) he scored 826 points, breaking the recognized three-year college scoring record of 632 made by Robert Meaney of Lehigh University in 1928-30. This season (his last) he is credited with making an all-time college record of 50 points in one game during the 92-10-27 victory over Duquesne during the Christmas trip. His total score since he started to play at Stanford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Point a Minute | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

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