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...exercises will begin with a parade and review on the Washington-Elm Common at 9 o'clock with the 241st Coast Artillery Band furnishing accompanying music. The graduation address will be delivered by Chaplain Abbott Peterson, Post Chaplain at Camp Edwards, Massachusetts. Chaplain Peterson is the first former student of the school to address an outgoing class. Chaplain Walter E. Reifsnyder, of the faculty, will pronounce the benediction at the close of the service. Token diplomas will be given to the 12 section leaders by Chaplain William A. Cleary, Commandant of the Chaplain School...
...customary "Deck the Hall with Boughs of Holly," "God Rest You Merry Gentlemen," "Good King Wenceslas," and also several new ones, including "The Hunter," and "Now Leave Your Flocks," "Christmas Day Is Coming," an Irish carol arranged expressly for this year's Harvard-Radcliffe Choir by Ruth E. Abbott...
...Away, Old Man (by William Saroyan; produced by George Abbott) sicks one of the most unpredictable of playwrights on one of the screwiest of subjects-Hollywood. When the two collide at their looniest, Get Away, Old Man has some uproarious moments. But Playwright Saroyan's mad visions of Hollywood are curdled by his sour memories: for once, the theater's leading apostle of brotherly love is out to take a poke. His movie producer (Edward Begley) is a nauseous phony, a vicious heel. Saroyan is equally out to take a bow. His genius (Richard Widmark) of a scriptwriter...
...snails, puppy dog's tails and all, the M. & St. L. creaked along. It took the courts six and a half years - from the time a small creditor threw it into bankruptcy in 1923 - even to get around to ordering a foreclosure sale. Forty-two times Howard S. Abbott, Minneapolis master in chancery, solemnly offered the road for sale, heard no bids. But last year, while Abbott was sick abed, another master made the sale, and for some $2,000,000 the road's reorganization managers, Coverdale & Colpitts, transportation engineers, bought in its $79,000,000 of "assets...
Died. Lou Costello Jr., youngest child of capering, cornfed Comedian Lou (Abbott &) Costello; after loosening a playpen slat, falling into the family swimming pool; the day before his first birthday; in Van Nuys, Calif. A few hours later his father went on the air for the first time after a seven-month illness and covered up with jokes about such subjects as life insurance...