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Recent fine performances show that Al Wilson stands a good chance of taking second with the 35-pound weight to the startling heaves of world's record holder Tom Bane of Tufts. Wilson and Jerry Kanter, however, will run into a greater quantity of quality competition in the shot put. Dick Rubin will also compete in the weight-toss...
Amidst loud cries of wounded pride and outrage, the new manager proceeded to drop 39 singers, including hitherto sacrosanct Heldentenor Lauritz Melchior, 60, whose wanderings from the score had been the bane of Met conductors for years. There were wild charges that Manager Bing, Vienna-born and German-trained, would try to force even more of the heavy dumpling of Wagner down the throats of audiences that are notably partial to lighter Italian and French fare. (Actually, Bing has little enthusiasm for Wagner.) When he signed famed Soprano Kirsten Flagstad to appear at the Met for the first time since...
Mister 880. A sentimental comedy with Edmund Gwenn as an amiable bane of the U.S. Secret Service's counterfeit experts (TIME...
Outstanding performance of the afternoon was turned in by the Jumbos' 220-pound Co-captain Tom Bane, who hurled the 35-pound weight 60 feet, 4 7/8 inches, only 2 7/8 inches off the world's record. But the thrill-laden contest of the day was the mile relay, won by the Crimson team of Charlie Durakis, Tom McGrath, Ed Grutzner, and Ronnie Berman...
...Bane and Backus are not outstanding with the shot, and top Jumbo pole vaulter Charlie Chislom is ailing. Even in top condition Chisolm would probably not come close to the Crimson's Bob Mello. Mello and Bill Geick will get their broad jump competition 21-feet leapers Jones, Al Price...