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After quite a spirited race during which the second formation tried in vain to catch up with the first, Bolles gave the signal to stop. A new grouping was instituted. This time all ten shells spread out in a single line spanning the Charles in a graceful effect. Cameramen had a hey-dey. But they missed catching "Spike" Chace, who was out with a cold. Oarsmen were exhausted...
Hawaii Calls (RKO Radio) is a vain effort to make 10-year-old Bobby Breen swap his mammy-singing mannerisms for the more suitable antics of a lifelike small boy. Its story outfits him with rags & tatters, a shoeshine box and a stowaway's berth to Honolulu. But whether Bobby sings wistful or swingy songs in his reedy, choirboy voice, he goes at them with expert, unchildlike, vaudeville-stage punctilio...
...came from its famed straw votes, whose ballots were accompanied by profitable subscription appeals. For the best part of a generation these polls forecast national election results with great accuracy. But gift premiums added to straw votes were not sufficient to offset growing public apathy toward editorial opinion. In vain the Literary Digest attempted to make itself over from a digest of opinion to a digest of news...
...sought in vain that intellectual glitter...
Leading at the half, the Crimson cagers were unable to stop the Eli rally in the opening minutes of the second period, and in vain resorted to long shots from the floor to pass the Yale quint...