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Bowser College has what it calls a Students Club. It is not a very elaborate affair, but because it has a monopoly on students' business, it does a landslide business. This enables it to stay open only when its proprietors feel like it, When it is open, the students starved by the dearth of meals in Bullie Hall, rush to it and eat and drink of a limited variety of food-stuffs. One might think that such an institution would be profitable but such is not the case...
DOUBLE TRAGEDY-Freeman Wills Crofts- Dodd, Mead ($2). A run-with-the-hare and hunt-with-the-hounds affair in which a hard-up English business man murders his wife's rich uncle, and covers his tracks from everybody but the patient and methodical Inspector French, who provides a first-class exercise in clue chasing and deduction...
Priestley Sentiment. Many character types from earlier Priestley novels reappear in the Elmdown Aircraft factory: Sammy Hamp, whose limp and withered arm accentuates the humility that makes him the happiest man in the place; Edith Shipton, the sex-starved spinster whose shoddy affair with a headmaster is replaced by genuine love for the implacably good Arthur Bolton, whose family and little shop have been obliterated by a Nazi bomb; Sister Filey, in charge of the clinic, whose female vitality is boundless and unbounded by the usual conventions...
Following a steak supper, which will be served from 6 to 7:30 o'clock, there will be a dance in the common room. Many hostesses have been invited as guests of the club and an orchestra has been hired for tomorrow night's affair...
...really a get-together affair, with the coaching staff meeting most members of the squad for the first time, and most members of the coaching staff meeting Harvard football for the first time, and learning the plays along with the players at signal drill...