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...Dance (Columbia), like Out of the Night, succeeds at once intersely handling an artificial but by no means dull story, and in making its people and their surroundings true-to-life. The story concerns the efforts, of two taxi-dancers (Jane Frazee, Joan Woodbury) and their boss (John Calvert) to get money out of two soldiers (Jimmy Lloyd, Robert Scott). The charm of the picture is in the redolent staging of scenes in the dance hall, at a jam session, a crap game; and in the fact that all these characters perform as unaffectedly as if they had no idea...
While Boston public schools will be closed today, according to an announcement broadcast last night, Harvard and other colleges in Boston and vicinity will hold classes as usual. A. Calvert Smith '12, secretary to the Corporation and secretary of the Board of Overseers, conferred with Deans Hanford and Buck and with department chairmen by telephone last evening and reached the agreement stated...
...available; whatever the reason, the British Fourteenth Army in Burma was the world's best at collecting pets. It was a tradition. The late Major General Orde C. Wingate had taken a cow buffalo along on his raids, once restored its health with precious brandy. Brigadier "Mad Mike" Calvert's favorite was an elephant named Flossie. In Arakan an officer keeps a bear...
After the outbreak of the war, Comdr. Tully was Gunnery Officer of the Navy transport U.S.S. Harry Lee, which had the distinction of serving as training ship for Guadalcanal's famed First Marine Division. Subsequent transfers took him to the transport U.S.S. Calvert, and then to the U.S.S. Charles J. Badger. On the latter ship, a 2100 ton destroyer, he served as Gunnery Officer in the spring of 1943, with the rank of lieutenant...
Some other Calvert students: a trailer-housed family of professional rollerskaters; a child on a Montana Indian reservation; a Vermont spastic; an Oregon child with a speech defect; a missionary's child on the Congo-Nile watershed; an Alaskan reindeer rancher's child; the governess-taught child of a Newport socialite...