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Weakened by injuries and by the fact that several key men are concentrating in laboratory courses, Lowell has been an in-and-outer all season. Captain Ralph Murphy and Hal Pinanski have featured the backfield while Eric "Blink" Reppun has been an immovable body at left guard...
...Behind him Private Frank Strozier saw the wave. The major flew on, landed at Valparaiso, Fla. aghast to find no Private Strozier in his ship. Then the phone rang. Over the wire came Private Strozier's voice, "You wiggled your hand. I thought the plane was on the blink. I bailed out." Said the major, "I was cold. I wanted you to close the cockpit, not empty...
Washington Street is ablaze with marquees as the Vagabond weaves his way. In deadly peril his eyes blink and head ducks from sharp, swarming umbrellas. Ticket sellers, polished bars, and even the warped old lady vending gardenias are busy in the rain. Doors of movie palaces swing forever, and before the Park Theatre, flaunting its usual lascivious attraction, stand two sailor boys counting their coins...
...this point a suave voice from London intruded: "We are now taking you back to the Carleton Hotel, for dance music." What befuddled Commander Woodrooffe was trying to describe was the manner in which, at a single blink from the flagship Nelson, every ship in the review suddenly flashed out with myriad lines of lights which, at another signal, blacked out completely. A moment later at a third signal hundreds of searchlights swept the night firmament in amazing patterns...
...hysterical, heroic rage as they pump bullets over the barricade. Purpose of the first performance of Spain Laughs was to see if a hand-picked audience would give enough encouragement to justify a Broadway opening. The partisan audience gave encouragement in plenty, though its drama-conscious members could not blink the fact that so loose-jointed a show might not be so happy in the commercial theatre as its more compact, economical model...