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Radcliffe's Class of '52 won a $75 appropriation from the Student Council yesterday to finance the annual sophomore managed Christmas Supper according to a new plan...
...quays of the sluggish Seine were lined last week with 300 entrants in Paris' annual fishing contest. Three times during the afternoon cheers rang out from the thousands who jammed nearby streets and bridges-fish had actually been caught. After rods & reels had been put away, President Auguste Minville of the Union des Pĕcheurs de Paris cheerfully admitted that "because the Seine is the drainage ditch of the world, all fish taken from it are blind, hunchbacked and constipated," in addition to being rather small. Total weight of the afternoon's catch (three minnows): 25 grams...
...Rank's troubles were caused by the fact that he had grown too big too fast. After he had won critical huzzahs and made money on such pictures as Henry V, he had attempted to increase his annual output of pictures from 25 to 60. Directors like Sydney Box (The Seventh Veil), who had been turning out five good films a year, were told to make 20. There was not enough moviemaking talent for all the pictures and the result was a dreary parade of box-office flops which cut into the profits of Rank's theaters...
Endicott (Chub) Peabody '42, of Cambridge, former all-American football guard, was elected state chairman of the American Veterans Committee at its first annual state convention yesterday in Springfield...
Harvard's "varsity" crew placed third in a field of three in the first annual Union Boat Club fall regatta yesterday morning. M.I.T.'s varsity won in 3:49 over the three-quarter mile course, nosing out the Union Boat Club by less than a deck length, while the Crimson's entry finished two lengths back...