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Both Heiden and Gardella will dress for the game, and Dick Harlow's decision to keep them out of the fray probably results from his desire to have the team at full strength for Yale the following week. The Harvard captain participated in most of the work yesterday afternoon and could undoubtedly play against Brown if he were sorely needed. Gardella has a capable understudy in Mississippi Bill Brown, so his absence will not slow up the Harlow offense too much...
Meanwhile Trustbuster Thurman Arnold joined the fray, charged the producers with "harsh, onerous and unfair trade practices," indicted Hollywood's Big Eight (Loew's, Paramount, Warner Bros., RKO Radio, 20th-century Fox, Columbia, Universal, United Artists) under the antitrust laws. His announced objective was to divorce production and distribution, make the big producers ' give up their 2,400 theatres. Last spring he called the industry a dictatorship, insisted it must be reorganized. While independent exhibitors cheered, the Big Eight sent their lawyers to Washington...
George Munger of Pennsylvania has three strong teams to send into the fray, giving him a tremendous manpower advantage over Harlow. The Quakers have great power, not as well harnessed as is Cornell's, but capable of forcing the play with Harvard most of the time...
...Waddie's most famous puzzling cases a man had been killed during a shooting fray, but the nearest bullet was found on the floor four feet from the corpse. Some unknown missile had penetrated the breastbone and windpipe, grazed the esophagus, pierced the large artery (aorta) leading from the heart. Result: "massive, bursting hemorrhages of every blood vessel [in the chest], a great gush of blood from the mouth." Waddie was sure the bullet had done the damage, but attorneys for the suspect in the case insisted that the victim must have been stabbed with a dagger by someone...
...Texans who have burned up U. S. fairways the past six months, came through with victory in the Scotch foursomes-i up over Sam Snead & Ralph Guldahl. Trailing 1-to-3, the "leftouts" took on their singles assignments with grim determination. Even Captain Sarazen went into the fray. But the best they could do was split the day's matches with the rightful Ryder Cuppers, to lose the two-day battle...