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Columbia, the surprise team of the league, is now only half a game behind the pace-setting Indians by dint of victories over Pennsylvania and Princeton. The Big Green will have a chance to prove its superiority this Saturday when it plays host to the Lions in what may be termed the week's most crucial engagement...
Outstanding among the current war-inspired films, this one begins a la Hemingway in Loyalist Spain, and proceeds by dint of skillful direction and Noel Cowardly dialogue right up to the present. It is built around the ancient girl reporter backbone, but manages, by the brilliant development throughout, to deemphasize this pleasantly...
...Jimmy MacDonald (Dick Powell), a perennial slogan contestant who is out for Maxford House Coffee Co.'s $25,000 prize. Powell is a $22-a-week comptometer clerk with three practical-joking friends who paste together a bogus telegram notifying him he has won the contest. By dint of some improbable inefficiency in the Maxford House organization, he collects the check, spends a sizable slice of it before the hoax is bared...
Illman prevailed in his match by dint of his superior knowledge and opportunist tactics, and just edged the more muscular Loring after coming from behind, with all odds again him, at the end of four minutes of wrestling...
Regular practice will begin for the entire squad Monday afternoon in the Briggs Cage. This is the earliest start Crimson baseball has had in recent years. By Monday Stahl hopes to have his battery candidates well ahead of usual February form by dint of three weeks' drill last fall and another week's work beginning last Monday...