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...last week over the fact that most experienced prize fighters have gone into the service. They thoroughly enjoyed seeing two scrappy kids, Newark's curly-haired Allie Stolz and Harlem's kinky-haired Beau Jack, fighting it out in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, for a fling at the world's lightweight title. The title had, as a matter of fact, been abandoned that very day by Champion Sammy Angott-supposedly because of a badly battered hand...
...inconsiderable. To thousands of Crimson alumni in all quarters of the fighting world there would come a feeling of contentment. They could think back on their college days and smile at three consecutive victories over their ancient rival; they could have a whole artillery of quips to fling at Yale men in their battalions. Football, that felic of an unharnessed past, would be a pleasant memory. And even Frank Merriwell, for whom God, country, and Yale were synonymous, might have a few uneasy moments in his literary grave...
...Francisco, heavy-spending shipyard workers have boosted nightclub business 30%. Mixed with the workers are thousands of sailors on leave and soldiers about to embark, all having one last fling. But regular socialite clubgoers are fewer. The fancy Bal Tabarin has dropped pâté de jole gras, crêpes suzettes, etc., from the menu, replaced them with plain English and a hot meat special...
...purchasing agent in 1931, partly because he remembered the glory decades when the company's famed "Red Seal" engines were used by 90% of some 600 independent automakers. But the glory was gone. Instead, the company blew its cash on fancy airplanes, a fleet of chauffeured limousines, a fling into the highly competitive, low-priced passenger-car business. In 1939 the big boot of RFC was evident when the old bosses faded out and Reese became president...
There will be production difficulties, too. Although such stars as Paul Robeson (who will play Othello at Cambridge and Princeton), Gertrude Lawrence, Tallulah Bankhead, Ruth Chatterton, Jane Cowl and Gracie Fields are scheduled, few Hollywood headliners will have their usual summer fling at legit. Hollywood, going full blast, can't spare them...