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...last week Oklahoma, like other universities, had been hit by the draining of its men into war service (17% of its 6,000 students), but rode on a crest of Brandtian optimism. Thanks to Brandt who helped get a naval base and aviation school established at Norman, the University town, University and Town were booming...
...same time, the Freshman squad will meet a group of British sailors on Business School field B. The Yardlings are riding the crest of an emotional wave, after the aforementioned win, and seek their first official victory of the year...
...year ago last spring, Soprano Lawrence was riding the crest. She had given U.S. operagoers six lessons of sturdy, full-throated Wagnerian song. At a time when the mighty Kirsten Flagstad dominated the Metropolitan, Marjorie Lawrence's star was bright enough not to be eclipsed. Off stage, the Australian soprano doted on swimming, tennis, horseback riding; on stage, she seemed equally brimful of health. As Brünnhilde, she surprised and delighted operaphiles by leaping astride her horse and galloping off in an almost unheard-of concurrence with Wagner's stage directions. Less in character, though a triumph...
...keeps around less for biological than for decorative reasons. Ken might have gone on being a tame cat indefinitely but for a quiet little country mouse named Vicky ("I like furniture and houses all warm and used and kind"), who gobbled him up when Amanda was busy riding the crest...
Griffin is a graduate of Wisconsin-got his first break as a kid reporter when he helped convict a mild-mannered but bigamous itinerant preacher who had killed his extra wife, painstakingly disjointed her body and buried each piece separately. On the crest of this achievement, Griffin sailed for France, got a job on the Paris Times, was at Le Bourget when Lindbergh landed...