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There was news aplenty for the sports fans. In San Francisco an enterprising rat fancier was busily training some 80 albino rats, their tails dyed distinguishing hues, to run races in a specially designed treadmill. "I just put 'em on the wheel and poke 'em," he said. "They get the idea pretty fast." In France, Britain's pigeon fanciers let loose some 4,000 prize birds in the France-to-England Grand National and Northeast Lancashire classics. Only 50% of the birds returned to England, but pigeon racers are philosophical about their hobby. What with the heat...
...horseback riding, had abolished professorial lectures and final examinations, put little stress on student grades, went in for such campus curiosities as a tree-lined "Walk of Fame," paved with stones from the homes and haunts of the world's great. Millionaire William Hayes Ackland, an amateur art fancier, was one of many pleased by such departures from tradition, especially since Rollins also showed a lively interest...
...apparent self-defense, and is even urged to keep dates with his boss's pet secretary (Ella Raines). With William Bendix of the New York Homicide Squad sniffing around, Lawyer O'Brien is in a very embarrassing fix. There is still another murder, set in a still fancier frame, before matters are cleared...
...Broadway could look back with greater pride on 1946-47 than on any other season since Pearl Harbor. There was no call to use the fancier adjectives; no forgetting a long procession of triteness and trash. But beyond a discernible increase in merit, there was a distinct effect of movement-of a theater aiming to get places, and not just by the same old routes...
...couple of trumpet men who could skid up to high F on the other, so that he could spread the chords. His music was carefully arranged except for solos. The Duke says "being able to repeat your solo is to me a virtue," a clear violation of the jazz fancier's shibboleth that only the improvised is inspired...