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...Skier's Bane...
Vertical, tree-studded slopes are the bane of western skiers from Seattle to San Bernardino along the Pacific side of the Sierras. Further inland, however, the mountain tops rise above the timber line, providing countless open runs for the energetic skier...
...kinds of critical accolades. Now 20th Century-Fox has got its hands on the same little book, and again come up with a new title--it seems the first one (the name of a dog) had all the evil earmarks for a War Picture, a current boxoffice bane. But what goes with the title this time is not so remarkable...
Hewitt and his men also defeated a strong headwind, usually the bane of light crews, by showing better coordination and holding a higher beat than the Carlsons. Hewitt stroked 31 for most of the race, Carlson...
English A, joy of the esthete and bane of the less creative, is a dying actor on the Harvard scene. But its venerable life has been given momentary reprieve by failure of the Committee on General Education to act on its own suggestion and integrate the teaching of writing into the framework of the General Education program. In its 1945 report the Committee maintained that the segregation of English composition from other fields of learning was a serious weakness in the present system. However, the suggested plan remains lost in the voluminous report, since next year's nearly doubled schedule...