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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ways. If Charles Edison has a comparable ambition, it waits on time and infirmity. On the best of terms with their Assistant Secretary, Leahy & Admirals prefer to remain that way by keeping him strictly ashore, well out of naval planning and operation. His awakening interest in such matters as the Navy's troublesome promotion system, its mountainous red tape, its broadening spheres in the Atlantic and Pacific, have caused hardly a ripple in the "Annapolis Club" of naval officialdom...
Danny Endweiss, of Yale, one of the best divers in the nation, was stricken with appendicitis after a meet on Wednesday and was operated on immediately. His loss will mean much to the Elis in the Princeton and Harvard meets. The attitude around the local pool is that his loss to Yale is unfortunate but then so was the loss of Willie Kendall to the Crimson...
Luckily the leading parts are not so affected by Hollywood cutting as are some of the minor ones. Clark Gable, as the philosophical hoofer, Harry Van, gives one of the best performances of his career, since the part is ideally suited to his happy-go-lucky Americanism. Because she modeled her Russian Countess entirely too much on Lynn Fontanne's characterization, Norma Shearer is not so successful. Her Irene lacks the spontaneity of Gable's Harry Van. Yet with all its short-comings, "Idiot's Delight" is sustained by its immediacy of theme and powerful conflict of points of view...
...steadily improving in technique and this match should be an opportunity for him to show his ability. In the 136-pound class, George Richter has to face James Holt. By virtue of his experience he stands the favorite. His last match deserves particular attention if Ric really shows his best stuff...
...present, according to Pat, out of 200 Oklahoma high schools, there are a 100 that can beat the best prep teams in the east, notably Andover, Choate, Taft, Gilman, and Lawrenceville. In the last few years, however, wrestling in the East has taken big strides. The influx of new coaches from the west, such as Cliff Gallagher at Harvard, Jay Ricks at M.I.T., and Dick Cole at Brown, has been a major factor in the change...