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Still battling for the Yardling intramural, crown, Straus North and Holworthy are in a virtual tie as the latter leads by a scant 2 1/2 points, 538 1/2 to 526. Straus led the race all the way to the wire until a strong Holworthy rowing squad took first and Straus North gained only a weak seventh. The straus track team bounced back to take first, but Holwrothy finished strong and gained points on the cinders. The final score will be decided today when the tennis tourney is completed. Both dorms have entries in the finals; Straus in the doubles...
Many people weren't waiting to find out. This week, as the flood crest swelled downstream, scores of smaller communities were virtual ghost towns as residents evacuated their homes, leaving only armed rowboat patrols behind to guard against looters...
...plot furnishes enough action to keep the picture from becoming just a Hayward-Froman recital. It quickly goes over Miss Froman's meteoric rise to fame, the dis-integration of her first marriage to Don Ross, the plane crash that left her a virtual cripple, and concentrates on her comeback, during which she entertained troops in Europe. The story's weakest point is its lack of motivation for Miss Froman's love affair with John Burn, the co-pilot of the plane. Burn, played insipidly by Rory Calhoun, does not appear long enough on the screen to get across much...
...Pendergast could afford to be relaxed about contracts. His own Ready Mixed Concrete Co. enjoyed a virtual monopoly of this service in Kansas City and Jackson County...
German until World War I, a League of Nations mandate of the French for 15 years after, the Saar has been a virtual French protectorate since World War II's end. Its mines and foundries supply 20% of France's coal, 15% of her iron and steel. Yet its people are primarily German; in the 1935 League plebiscite, 90% of them voted for union with Germany. French High Commissioner Gilbert Grandval, an ardent Gaullist, was not content with tying the Saar to the French economy, with which it has a natural industrial affinity. He was also determined...