Word: berths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world's most elaborate private train. An entire car is devoted to the papal chamber and throne room, with four lifesize figures of angels outside the big arched windows. By an ingenious mechanism the Throne can be caused to upend and vanish into the wall, a superb berth appearing in its place covered by a white & gold canopy. So that six Cardinals can celebrate Mass at once en route, the Papal Train has six altars sumptuously provided with cruets of water and sacrificial wine, tabernacles, lace altar cloths, candlesticks of all necessary sizes and complete but compact sets...
Mike Adlis's rise to a berth at left tackle is more interesting. Adlis has started slowly this year and hasn't until now justified his status as a former Yale game starter. The position he is filling has been Harlow's guest line worry since the Springfield game. There have been several good men competing for the job, but none of them have quite met Harlow's exacting requirements for a 60-minute lineman...
...victory over the Purple distance-men. Leading the pack should be Captain Bob Playfair, twice winner of the Big Three Meet and holder of the course record, Hayden Channing, Jr. '37 was second in last year's Holy Cross meet and is considered a likely candidate for the same berth this year...
...fight for the spare fullback berth may center around Fitzwilliam Sargent and Richard Powell '38. Holcombe should hold down the other position...
...court approved the plan (which includes a change of name to Paramount Pictures), the only missing jig in the Paramount puzzle was the executive staff. Last week Paramount's 17 new directors got together in Manhattan, attended to this final detail. Old Mr. Zukor was given a berth as board chairman but key job of executive committee chairman went to Mr. Fortington. Picked for president was John Edward Otterson, 54, a tall, quiet, iron-haired onetime Naval officer who has long headed Electrical Research Products, Inc., American Telephone & Telegraph's spectacular subsidiary. He it was who boosted...