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...only out-of-state appearance of a war-torn season, the Crimson Varsity baseball team treks to Providence tomorrow afternoon to face Brown University. The Stahlmen will be gunning for their third straight victory and a repetition of last year's 10 to '3 win over Brown...
...took a war to get the Freshmen out of the Yard and the Jubilee went with it. Old war-torn '46 wracked its brains for a place to put the big dance, until somebody piped up "Mem Hall." Amid the chorus of groans a few visionaries got to work. In spite of its mustry, dusty outlook and its atmosphere of blue books and proctors the place looked really respectable on the big night...
...lieutenant in the Twentieth Massachusetts Infantry, was wounded three times. The second time, as he lay near death in a cornfield, a passing chaplain murmured: "You're a Christian, aren't you? Well then, that's all right." The third time his right heel was almost torn off. Captain Holmes kept the wound open with a sliver of carrot. "I pinched W's heel a little the other day," wrote his jolly father, "and asked him into what vegetable I had turned his carrot. No answer. Why, into a Pa's nip! was my response...
Allied flyers (American pilots outnumbered the British 2-to-1) caught the Japanese with their kimonos up, peppered the island port of Sabang just off Sumatra's northern tip, salted down Lho Nga airfield on Sumatra proper. Japanese installations were torn, five small ships burned, 25 airplanes wrecked...
Once in a great while a biceps unflexes, and the result is a good act. W. C. Fields, looking worn-&-torn but as noble as Stone Mountain, macerates a boozy song around his cigar butt and puts on his achingly funny pool exhibition with warped cues. Donald O'Connor continues to prove himself a Mickey Rooney with some unspoiled, big-Adam's-apple charm to boot. Orson Welles, as a nice parody of a magician, saws Marlene Dietrich in two and watches her better half walk off with the act. Sophie Tucker, the Manassa Mauler of her field...