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...mile relay, the Crimson will be racing Yale and Princeton. Coach Mikkola will use Ward Slingerland as first man, Larry Corbett as second, Frank McKechnie as third, and Bill Ellis as anchor. This team is inexperienced, since both Slingerland, and Ellis are Sophomores, and McKechnie, although he is a Senior, did not run last year...
Besides tracing the history of fisticuffs from the reign of James Figg (1719-34), first English champion, Historian Fleischer has dug up the records of some 1,500 of the world's prizefighters, the measurements of 32 famed heavyweights, the odds on every heavyweight championship bout from Sullivan-Corbett to Louis-Nova, a detailed explanation of the financial deal on the Johnson-Jeffries fight, and many another fist fact. Samples...
...Hollywood. Occasion: a party for Gloria Vanderbilt and Pasquale di Cicco the night before their wedding (see p. 43). What happened: shoving, wrestling, crawling on the floor. Among the crawlers: Lupe Velez. Flynn dragged Mdivani and Romanoff out of a scrimmage. Flynn's next role: Fighter James J. Corbett. He denied any connection...
...last precipice over which Blithe Spirit might have toppled is skirted too: the production is delightful, with a trio of actresses nosing out suave Clifton Webb to reap most of the glory. Graceful English Leonora Corbett romps amusingly as the twitting first wife; Peggy Wood (Old Acquaintance) huffs expertly as the twitted second one; and Mildred Natwick (Missouri Legend) plays the medium-who in her trances is wild-eyed as a witch on a broomstick, in her waking moments hearty and chin-up as a Girl Guide leader -with prodigious humor and bounce...
Francis H. Caskin 3d. '44, Constantine P. Cavarnos ocC, Allen R. Clark '42, Joel Cohen '42, Robert G. Conley, '43, Laurence P. Corbett, G. Cornish Jr. '42, John D. Cotman Jr. '43, Btuart '42, Richard A. Craig '43, Kieran P. Culliton '43, William P. Cmmingham...