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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scheme of an 11,350-mile Inter-American Highway goes back to 1924. By last week many sections had been built: some 8,000 miles of it were all-weather roads; 2,150 were usable in dry weather; 1,200 were still bullock-cart trails. Only one section was hopelessly blank: between Panama City and Colombia stretched 186 miles of impassable jungle and swampland, with head-hunting Indians lurking behind each tree. Belief was that the highway would have to break off at Panama; that cars would have to be ferried over 1,000 miles around the coast...
...woman reporter to perfection, even though in the end she has to let her hair down and become merely A Woman. Edward Arnold also acts out a part which he has played for years--the cigar-smoking, smooth-talking menace who threatens to upset the true-love apple-cart with his foul designs, but in the end is either converted to true humanity or is foiled in his insidious intentions. The only new twist to this picture is that neither of these fates befall Mr. Arnold...
...that the thing does not jell. It becomes more a series of stunning effects than a clearly discernible whole. Still, for what they are, the effects, caused by a varied and beautifully recorded percussion and passionate inter-jections from the chorus, are extremely striking. Also effective is "The Ox-Cart Driver's Song" for soprano and piano, sung by Elsic Houston with plenty of barbaric yawp. The song is impressive even if you don't care for barbaric yawp; if you do, it's doubly powerful. The last selection in the album, "Quatuor" for flute, harp, celesta, and women...
Nevertheless the contest promises to be a lot more than a drab "one-two for the Blue" affair. Coach Ulen has a sprinkling of individual stars on whom he is counting to upset the dope-cart in several events...
...walk off with the Baker Trophy for the second year in a row. During the Christmas vacation they attracted considerable attention by humbling mighty Minnesota, purportedly the best team in the West, and returned home in a very confident frame of mind. Little Williams upset the apple cart by administering the Bulldogs a decisive setback in, of all places, their New Haven stronghold. Since that time the Elis have been beaten by Princeton and tied by Dartmouth in League competition...