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...this stage of the season the half-back line is somewhat nebulous. Munro expects to start Charlie (sprained chin) Steele on the right, Bill Rapp at center, and sophomore Bill (bad charley horse) Driver on the left. Two other backs, Peter (sprained ankle) Erskine and Art (bad heel) Atkinson should be ready for some service by the beginning of the season...
...matches played Tuesday, William Fuller and Charlotte Sullivan trounced the Genehi-Carroll duo, 6-1, 6-1 to reach the final. The other match, also a semi-final contest in the mixed doubles division, was won by Atkinson and Moore, 6-1, 14-12. The tournament schedule has had to be tightened considerably because of rain...
...state legislators, rallied to his cause, though a surprising flock of younger men around the state seemed eager to campaign for him. Smart money gave him no better than third place in the eleven-man first primary. Odds-on favorite: Dry-Minded W. P. (Bill) Atkinson, 52, Midwest City millionaire builder and hand-picked candidate of incumbent Teetotaler Raymond Gary. Atkinson was shocked to see Newcomer Edmondson beat him in the primary, force a runoff with a tiny plurality of 427. Atkinson and the Gary machine fought wildly to catch up, but they could not match Edmondson...
...Bail. Drama Critic Brooks Atkinson ('17), stoutly denies that he was one of the shop's nicotine-tarnished idlers, admits only that "once or twice a year (not often enough to be recognized) I did drop in to take a free pipeful of Cake Box Mixture from the open box on the counter. I tried to give the impression that, if the sample were to my taste, I would order Cake Box Mixture in bulk." Epicure Lucius Beebe ('27) shunned cigarettes, which caused users to emerge from Leavitt & Peirce "shamelessly trailing clouds of Sweet Caporal and leering...
Before opening night, this sort of plot was regarded by Broadway wiseacres as something that belongs in the theatrical graveyard. But when the opening-night curtain fell, most critics were ecstatic. "Marvelous," said the New York Times's Brooks Atkinson. "If Mark Twain could have collaborated with Vachel Lindsay, they might have devised a rhythmic lark like The Music Man, which is as American as apple pie and a Fourth of July oration." Cheered the Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr: "The brightest, breeziest, most winning new musical to come along since My Fair Lady enchanted...