Word: careers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time in his high-speed career, squint-eyed "Wild Bill" Cummings, hell-for-leather winner of the 1934 Indianapolis automobile race and many another hard-fought meeting on the roaring road, got into a fix last week from which his sure hand and "heavy foot" could not extricate...
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...
...does not feel that jazz is a particularly good career because, he says, only the top men make a living from it. Despite this pessimism Levin is hopeful that he can arouse interest in swing...
...wrestling was made an intercollegiate sport at Harvard, the year that Pat Johnson started his wrestling career here which culminated in the winning of the national championship in the 135-pound class. About this time Lehigh was becoming the foremost eastern wrestling representative, a position which it has maintained ever since. Harvard was admitted into the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling League, at the time a rather exclusive organization, due to the efforts of Bill Bingham, whose love of the sport has been an important factor in the rise of Harvard wrestling...
Throwing caution and the regulation seer's turban to the winds, Walter L. Hyde '41, and Edward P. Edmunds '41, both of Leverett House, climaxed their palm-reading career with a tail-coated seance at the Bali Ball in Boston's Hotel Somerset...