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...final entry list for the Oxford-Cambridge meet was also announced yesterday. Besides those previously announced, Brinckley of Yale has been awarded the number two spot in the high jump, since Bob Partlow, who is already slated to broad jump, withdrew; Marshall MacIsaac will be the second pole vaulter on the basis of his performance in the Heptagonal; and Yale's Bob Ord earned a berth when he beat out Joe Bradley in a special...
...Cradle Will Rock," a ten-scene satire dealing bitterly with modern industrial strife, was first produced late in 1937 by Orson Welles and John Houseman for the Mercury Theatre in New York. When the Federal Theatre withdrew its sponsorship from the production on the opening night, Welles, Houseman, and the whole cast, followed by an angry crowd of first-nighters, trooped across Manhattan to the Venice Theatre...
...permission. Although the plaintiffs said they asked for permission five times, they received no reply. They went ahead and sued anyway. Then the Consistorial Congregation announced that by their act they had incurred excommunication. Plaintiff Bordeleau, alarmed, ducked out of the suit last January. The other plaintiffs last fortnight withdrew their suit against the Archbishop and the corporation. Said their counsel: "It is said, the Gauls feared only one thing, that Heaven might fall on their heads. Well! That is very much what happened." But the suit was not lost. St. Etienne parish acknowledged the debt, consented in court that...
Angry and humiliated, Marshal Petain suddenly withdrew to Paris, threatened to resign. Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet finally persuaded him to return to Burgos, instructed him to get tough and beat down El Caudillo's demands...
Also missing from the League are of course, the U. S. which never joined, Japan which withdrew in 1933 over the China "incident"; Germany, which dropped out the same year over the question of rearmament; Italy, which resigned in 1937 over Ethiopia and sanctions; Austria, which was anschlussed; Czecho-Slovakia which was Muniched...