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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four man, rowed on the crew in '48 and '49; Dick Emmet, number three, held a position on the varsity in '47 and '48. The balance of the crew, Bob Taggart at five, Nat Ober at seven, and bowman Hargo Hansen, were jayvees in '48 or '49. (Hansen in better known as Assistant Dean in charge of Sophomores...
...Savoy, Mass. Ave. at Columbus Ave., offers liquor and jazz. Localitte Bob Wilber leads a group of musicians who are almost all better than he. Jimmy Archey is tops on the trombone...
...Brattle Theater Company presented the second play of this (its first) winter season, last Wednesday night. It was Chekhov's "The Sea Gull," and appearing with the resident company was the celebrated Viennese actress, Luise Rainer. Chekhov, Miss Rainer, and the Brattle players have never been seen to better advantage by this reviewer. The Brattle Hall group, which in the past few years has done so much to raise the level of drama locally, deserves most special praise for introducing and re-introducing both Chekhov and Miss Rainer to this generation of theatergoers...
Luise Rainer, who can be remembered for her portrayal of Anna Held in the motion-picture "The Great Ziegfeld," among other outstanding roles, is still no better decribed than by the adjective "captivating." During her longer speeches Wednesday night, particularly the lyrical but incomprehensible 'play-scene' in Act I, Miss Rainer held her audience spellbound by the sheer radiance she brought to the role. During this speech, she made fewer movements than a Madonna, but at other times she did things that no American-trained actress could possibly do and get away with--the mercurial changes of mood, the intense...
Coach Valpey had some comments on the Dartmouth offense after going through Elmer Madar's scouting reports. "Clayton is one of the better quarterbacks in the country on T-formation work' he said. "Dartmouth's got a lot of good backs, and one of the best passing attacks in the East...