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...Brown lacrosse squad waltzed onto Soldiers Field yesterday with the intentions of two-stepping their way by a traditionally hapless Harvard team. The Crimson however entered with a floorshow of its own and nearly stunned the top team in New England before succumbing to two last fourth quarter tallies...
...sports shirt and slacks, Henry Kaiser charges all over his 18-acre resort to make decisions and supervise projects personally. Blue prints in hand, he pursues carpenters up scaffolds, sets deadlines for each project and sees to it that they are met. He even participates in floorshow rehearsals, is not above taking a turn at the bongo drums...
...restaurants that will serve a meal for a maximum $1.70 (tip included). In Paris, the visitor can take a $13 nightclub prowl that includes a dive billed imaginatively as "the center of the former underworld," where everything is faked but the check. The Crazy Horse Saloon has a floorshow featuring cowboys, Indians and cowgirl stripteasers...
...Deweymen forces were completely routed. In a radio interview, retiring Chairman Scott admitted: "I certainly don't think that Mr. Dewey ought to run in 1952." New York's Committeeman J. Russel Sprague, who ran the Dewey floorshow in Philadelphia, put it more bluntly: "We New Yorkers . . . won't have a candidate in 1952. We'll just sit back and get some of the loving for a change...
...records. Cugat credits much of his success to his female vocalists. He selects them "80% on looks and 20% on what goes into the ears. A man can't understand what my girl sings, but if he likes to look at her then I'm all right." Floorshow dancers are also handpicked. One of them, Cugat's niece, became Broadway Actress Margo; another became Hollywood's Rita Hayworth...