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Beginner's Luck. In Maysville, Ky., Mrs. Ira Beckett nervously started her first driving lesson, carefully turned a corner and sideswiped five cars...
...first big Hogarth exhibition in London in more than 100 years. Nobody in Britain seemed able to explain the long oversight for sure. Roland Beckett, art historian and Hogarth expert, suspected it was the old trouble: "People think of him as a mere cartoonist...
...song called Strictly on the Corny Side, which might serve as the movie's theme song. Date has a few moments of appealing teen-age humor, but most of it is overcomplicated plot about lovestruck adolescents and their immature parents. The juveniles (Jane Powell, Elizabeth Taylor, Scotty Beckett, Robert Stack) may be forgiven for acting like ambitious hams in a high-school play, but the hardened adult "troupers (Wallace Beery, Leon Ames, Carmen Miranda) also suffer repeated attacks of squirming coyness. Most of the cast, too, is larded over with a fiery red makeup that would look fine...
...synonym for usury. The Bishops of Cahors, who held Mercuès longest, built a fortress there; and under its battlements rode robber barons, Knights Templar and hymn-singing pilgrims to Rome and Jerusalem. Henry II of England led his armoured warriors past Mercuès and Thomas à Beckett paused there on his way to become governor of Cahors. By the reign of Louis XIV the rich bishops had turned the fort into a château with a magnificent terrace where they imitated the pageantry of the Sun King's court. In 1905, when France dispossessed...
...Crimson will be Jack Wallace of V-12, seeking to improve upon his five-hitter against Camp Thomas last week. HARVARD NORTHEASTERN Clark, r.f. p., Rosato Slattery, i.b. c., Zbozen Chapple, 2b. 1b., Alves Boston, c.f. 2b., Stiles Luiz, 3b. ss., Giroux Harding, c. 3b., Smialek Conlon, l.f. r.f., Beckett Falsey, ss. c.f., Sawtelle Wallace, p. l.f., Tuttle