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Playfair took fifth in the 3200-meters which was won by a Manhattan runner. Bruce Kerr of Cornell, Saturday's Tri-Meet opponent for the Harvard distance man, took second...
...plane of Central Airlines one night last week. Two seats had been removed to install a five-foot-square screen at the cabin's front end. Warner Brothers had provided a cinema projector, two technicians, a specially-made 16-mm. print of Devil Dogs of the Air. The tri-Wasp Ford, ordinarily noisy, had been sound-proofed with rock wool...
...getting tired of the Abbey plays," says he. "so I decided to write one for them." The amateurs as well as the Abbey turned the play down, but William Butler Yeats wrote an en couraging letter. O'Casey wrote two more, Harvest Festival and The Crimson in the Tri-Color. The latter was set down on paper a friend stole for the poverty-stricken playwright from a printing plant. These, too, failed to make the Abbey. But his next, The Shadow of a Gunman, did. World fame came with Juno and the Paycock and The Plough and the Stars...
...Supreme Court had not actually awarded him any damages, or said that his patents were infringed, or ruled that Mr. Fox's company owned the patents. In fact, Fox Film Corp. was contending that the man who in 1930 had lost control of that company had bought the Tri-Ergon patents abroad with $45,000 of Fox Film money and hence had no right to them. And finally it was argued that the "double print" and "sprocket" processes for recording and reproducing sound-the prime points of dispute-were not entirely fundamental and could be circumvented by smart sound...
Well, it's rather hard on us naive Americans to feel the total abandonment we are left in, to witness the diplomatic sleights of hand of the British, our professed friend. But Uncle Sam, go the British one better--insist upon equality of armaments and demand moreover a tri-party security agreement: that the nation committing aggression will have the other two on its neck to keep the peace. Then watch England wince. Put the burden of either success or failure of the conference on her head and see what happens...