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...overtime session. Hyde put Harvard ahead by two points, but Tufts Rocco Antonelli tied it up two minutes later. Then Hyde's foul with a minute to play looked good enough to win, and the Crimson waived two fouls to keep possession of the ball. But these tactics proved fruitless when Andy Gibbons sneaked away on a sleeper play and converted a pass from Antonelli to win the battle with twenty seconds remaining...
Taking their Business School training in the best Pappy O'Daniel tradition, two lupine B-Schoolers have disguised their political ambitions under a sheepskin of comic strip humanitarianism in organizing their "Take the Wrinkles Out of Prune Face's Face" Committee, but so far their leveling best has been fruitless and they are no closer to their goal of election to the B-School Association...
...Casablanca last fortnight, Nick Craw volunteered to go ashore, try to persuade the French commander to surrender. After one fruitless trip, Nick tried again. Machine-gun bullets sang overhead. It was the excitement Nick liked. Then the bullets thudded into his body...
Once Upon A Honeymoon (RKO Radio). In this all-out attempt to break back into big-time production after a lean season, RKO's headmen took no chances. They brought able Author-Director-Producer Leo McCarey (Love Affair, Make Way for Tomorrow) out of two years of fruitless bondage to erratic Producer Howard Hughes. Ginger Rogers, who can pick & choose her vehicles, thought the story was too good to pass up. Gary Grant was paid a reputed $175,000 to play opposite her. Such a lustrous combination ought to have worked well, but it does not work as well...
...letter to the Crimson Network, which made repeated but fruitless attempts to air the battle, the Wolverine coach, Fritz Crisler, revealed that only home state stations are presenting the contest...