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...Foil teams of France, Italy and the U. S. fenced a three-way tie. When the U. S. was eliminated, France and Italy were still tied, with eight matches each. Judges gave France the title on points...
...introducing a line of ice cream in about 75% of its New York and Philadelphia stores as an experiment. The ice cream will be sold as A. & P's own brand under the name Yukon Club. In addition several novelties made by Eskimo Pie Corp. (controlled by U. S. Foil Corp.) will be handled. The price will be 20¢ a pint against a current competitive price of around 30?...
Such an environment furnishes a dull foil for the brighter items in the book. R. L. Duffus. Gardner Jackson, Muriel Draper, Gilbert Seldes and a few others contribute articles that would be illuminating anywhere. But, compared to the flickering literary illumination, it is the 140 pictures that shed real light. The 100 artist contributors make an almost perfect score of hits in the great game called "Understanding America." Drawings by Peter Arno, Otto Soglow, other New Yorker artists; photographs by Margaret Bourke-White, Anton Bruehl; paintings by George Bellows, Charles Sheeler, Georgia O'Keefe, Morris Kantor, Charles Burchfield...
...best swordsmen in the University will assemble tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Fencing Room of the Indoor Athletic Building to battle for the championship in foil, sabre, and epee. Preliminary bouts were held all the first part of last week in all classes, unusual interest making it necessary that three separate strips be run off to get to the finals, which were postponed until tomorrow...
...University foil matches tomorrow will probably furnish as fine a spectacle of close fencing competition as has been seen in Cambridge this year, since all six of the competitors are closely matched and about equally favored. M. U. Copland 3L and H. B. Wesselman 1L are the only contestants outside the College, and seem to bid strongly for the foils title. Both whitewashed their opponents in the preliminaries with little difficulty, but they have as yet to meet in the finals two members of this year's University team who are expected to provide plenty of resistance, Gilbert Kerlin...