Word: finally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from an outmoded indictment into a moving character study. As Nora's complacent spouse, Dennis King, hero of operettas, farces and romantic dramas, plays Ibsen as well as he sings Lehar and Friml. For all of Torvald's prissy traits, Actor King makes him pitiable in his final, bewildered defeat. Back from playing the ancient High Lama in Hollywood's Lost Horizon, Sam Jaffe is expertly repulsive and yet appealing as Nils Krogstad, the blackmailer who gets Nora in his clutches. Also from Hollywood, Paul Lukas acts with restraint and beauty the doomed Doctor Rank who faces...
...seeded players cleared to the semifinals. But there calculations began to go amiss. Opposed were Isadore Bellis, seeded second, and Joseph Fishbach, seeded fourth; William Gillespie, seeded first, and Marvin Kantrowitz, seeded third. Fishbach and Kantrowitz trounced their opponents in straight sets, prepared to face off in the final. Both slim, dark New York City boys, they learned their tennis together on a concrete court back of the De Witt Clinton High School in The Bronx. Two years ago when they were high-school seniors they played together on the team that won the New York interscholastic tennis championship. Then...
...Lake Placid Club's annual invitation tournament. The first day curly-haired Ed Meservey won the cross-country race, followed by two Dartmouth teammates in second and third place. Next day Ed Wells, who had won the slalom the day before, placed first in the downhill. On the final day Meservey placed second in the ski jump, which gave him first place in the combined cross-country & jump, brought Dartmouth's score to 500 points. 79 more than second-place Williams...
...Berman, 52, a native of Minsk, Russia, had for three months given shelter, firewood, candles to two tenants in his condemned three-room flat, at rental of 5? per day. When he developed a sore foot and was unable to go out for wood, they refused to pay rent. Final compromise: the tenants agreed to bring their landlord food, firewood, candles in return for free lodging...
Following Charlie Lutz'n free throw putting the Crimson out in front at 42-41, in the final minutes of play Joe Batchelder snatched victory from the Fishermen by tossing a field goal, and the Indians successfully staved off the closing Crimson rally...