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Unlike U. S. baseball, there are no highly-paid prima donnas in soccer. All players receive a standard weekly wage (?4 to ?8), are seldom singled out for acclaim by sportswriters. The team is the thing. Arsenal, the most famed team in England, draws the largest crowds, makes the most money and gets the biggest headlines. Its director and part owner, paunchy, jowled George Allison, brought to British soccer in 1933 the flair for publicity he learned during 22 years as a London journalist for William Randolph Hearst. Into his new million-dollar stadium, Director Allison, a onetime Yorkshire soccer...
...read the acclaim which has greeted Harvard's method of using Mrs. Nicman's million dollar gift, we wonder. . . . We wonder how journalists will feel, after a year's study at Harvard upon "such subjects as they desire" when they are forced to compress and distort their knowledge to fit "hot news" and the style books...
...native of the semitropical Tiflis region, did not himself turn out in the blizzard but sent 62-year-old Russian President Kalinin to stand snow-buffeted atop the tomb of Lenin in the Red Square, to receive officially "on behalf of Comrade Stalin" the shouts of acclaim...
...brightens the lives of the boy's down-at-heels father (Guy Usher), his toneless, defeated mother (Marjorie Main) and the little girl in the next flat (Maureen O'Connor), who sings pathetic songs in the voice of a younger, fresher Helen Morgan. Actress Main won wide acclaim for her portrayal of "Babyface" Martin's mother in the stage and screen versions of Dead End. Cinema newcomer Maureen O'Connor is a radio veteran...
...Russell Allen '38, captain of the team, Richard Cresson Harlow, its coach, and Roger B. Merriman '96. Gurney Professor of History, drew highest acclaim for their speeches...