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With this awesome array of talent, one might think George Munger hasn't a worry in the world. But he does; constant experimentation still hasn't produced a quarterback to fill Gene Davis' shoes. In the Penn system, a quarterback must block like a fiend, call signals, and bark signals (Penn uses no huddle) in the best Demosthenesian manner. Jackie McCarthy, a Sophomore converted from end, has top rating right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harlow Stresses Pass Offensive In Drill for Star-Laden Quakers | 10/1/1942 | See Source »

...Army verdict was that Leonski was a "fiend," whose barehanded strangulation of three Melbourne women "cast a foul blot on the service." But there were two other theories about Leonski, one of which may still save him from the gallows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Mother's Boy | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

Tonight at 8:30 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall the Harvard Film Society will begin its presentation of a series of memorable motion pictures with the "Dream of a Rarebit Fiend," produced in 1906 and directed by Edwin S. Porter, in which Thomas Edison introduced trick photography for comic effect. The second picture on the program, "High and Dizzy," produced in 1920 and directed by Hal Roach, features Harold Lloyd and the first developments from slapstick. The last picture to be shown, "The Navigation," produced in 1924 and directed by Donald Crisp and Buster Keaton, contains the beginnings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Film Society's Series Of Pictures to Start Tonight | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

...picture is concerned with the ultimate capture of a fiend who murders Miss Grable's sister (Carole Landis), a hash-house honey whom Mr. Mature, a lowbrow sports promoter, inadvertently promotes right out of his life to Hollywood. Everyone gets what is coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 15, 1941 | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

When this girl, this brainy fiend, wasn't reading she was talking about books and authors that Vag Knew nothing about. About James Farrell and Steinbeck, and W. H. Auden and MacNeice. (MacNeice? MacNeice? Never heard of him. But Steinbeck wrote "Of Mice and Men" and he had seen that in the movies.) About Dreiser and Dostoevski and Proust and Flaubert and Sterne and someone named George Borrow. Vag felt dumber and dumber. He hadn't known there were so many damn authors in the world he hadn't read. About Gide. Vag thought he was the bird who wrote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 12/4/1941 | See Source »

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