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...game against Yale, Brickley kicked five goals from the field for 15 points, which is some record. The bubbear of the Hinkey lateral passing attack, with Lagore and Wilson as great threats caused a lot of midnight oil to be burned by the Harvard coaches in 1914. But by dint of scouting and devising a trick defense which worked well in its experimental phase against Princeton, Haughton surmounted that obstacle by a 36-0 score against the Elis...
...Arctic Ocean. In 1931 he set out from Alaska to help Herdsman Andy Bahr drive 3.000 reindeer across Northern Alaska and the Mackenzie River Delta to Canada (TIME, Jan. 7).* Quarreling with other drivers two years ago, he packed up a sledge, mushed off eastward alone. By dint of catching fish bare-handed to feed himself and his dogs, he reached the North Magnetic Pole on Boothia Peninsula last summer, photographed it, started South. A mosquito bit his left arm which swelled, became useless. Game was so scarce he had to lie on his back, lure seals, which he munched...
...gangster brother to leave the East Side and rise in the world. Helped by his sweetheart Sarah (Colleen Moore), he gets a job in an advertising agency. His success soon begins when with the aid of a dictionary he turns out better copy than a college-bred rival. By dint of being mean, treacherous, morose and excitable, Joe Martin makes money, usurps the position of the executive (Frank Morgan) who helped him and takes to wife the latter's costly and frivolous mistress (Genevieve Tobin). By this time any cinemagoer may be sure that mercenary Joe Martin will come...
...Fool of Venus, eight were spent on research and the other two were wasted. In spite of all the pomp and panoply of a conscientiously historical novel, this lengthy (438 pp.) tale of a 12th Century troubadour rarely makes sense as a story about human beings. By dint of piling on medieval facts and such medieval words as bliaut, destrier, devinalh, joc-partitz, tenson, Author Cronyn has built a massive keep whose outlines are impressive but inside are only senseless shadows. Peire Vidal, famed troubadour who actually lived until Author Cronyn began to put him down on paper...
...Europe in the belief that her mother is a fancy lady, of the haut monde. It goes without saying that the daughter has to come home, suddenly: she is about to be married, and the old Count wants to look over mama before he exudes the paternal blessing. By dint of the efforts of a sentimental gambler, a role which, to speak euphemistically, is interpreted by Warren William, the old apple seller is ensconsced in an apartment, and given quite an air of savoir faire and other little spices. The lunacy winds up in a general turmoil, in the midst...