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Died. Lou Gehrig, 38, "Iron Man of Baseball"; in Manhattan. Stricken two years ago with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (hardening of the spinal cord), the great, clean-living, slugging Yankee first baseman, son of a German-born janitor, had hung up the all-round record of baseball: 2,130 consecutive games (for 14 years he played in every Yankee game); more than 100 runs a year; a lifetime batting average...
Rollins' investment has already begun to pay dividends. Sportswriters and photographers have beaten a path to its campus to get better acquainted with its twinkling stars. Miss Betz, known as "Bobbie," is the belle of the campus. An all-round athlete, she is forward on the basketball team, table-tennis champion of Florida. In part payment for her scholarship, she helps teach tennis, has boosted attendance at tennis classes from 35 to 250 (half the student body) within six months...
...Western Union" is an all-round admirable job, what with fine direction, a surprising minimum of Hollywood cliches, and the best technicolor to date. Perhaps February is somewhat early for predictions, but you'll be betting on a sure thing if you spot the picture as one of the ten best...
...Although the present team already has blown its chances of equalling this record by means of an affair with the Big Green on January 10, it is a better team. Coach Wes Fesler himself believes this. By that he means that Captain Franny Simpson and his cohorts display better all-round team play than their larger predecessors...
Tall, lean, balding Joseph Szigeti (rhymes with spaghetti) is not the silky-slickest violinist in the world (Jascha Heifetz is), nor the velvety-mellowest (Fritz Kreisler is). But for flawless taste and all-round performance, Fiddler Szigeti gets the votes of most critics, fiddlers, composers, fastidious concert-fanciers. The 15 years, on & off, that Szigeti has fiddled in the U. S. have given him a taste for such U. S. diversions as listening to swing and the radio. Last week radio "jaywalkers"-as he calls dial-twiddlers-had a chance to hear Szigeti...