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Married. Frederick Penrose Tennyson, 26, cinema director, great-grandson of Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Nova Pilbeam, 19, British cinemactress (Little Friend, Nine Days a Queen); in London...
Every U. S. football fan has heard of Alabama. Its teams have played in the Rose Bowl five times. That it had another potentially great team this season was no surprising news. But to most fans above the Mason-Dixon line, Tennessee has always been considered minor league -just hillbilly stuff. Last year, when the unheralded boys from the Smokies burned up the Southeastern Conference,* won all ten games on their schedule (rolling up 276 points) and then drubbed undefeated Oklahoma, Big Six champion, in the Orange Bowl, even boarding-school girls in New England became aware that Tennessee could...
...born Major Robert Reese Neyland (pronounced knee-land), football coach since 1926. Famed 25 years ago as one of the greatest all-round athletes ever turned out at West Point, The Major (as he is known to his players) is at long last being recognized as one of the great football coaches of the U. S. In twelve years (one year he was unable to coach because of Army duty in the Canal Zone)* he has turned out six undefeated teams, and his record of 102 victories, twelve defeats and eight ties is almost equal to that of the late...
When the picture was over, the audience applauded loudly. But coming out from under its spell, some of them must have wondered if Director Frank Caprahad been reading late great Secretary of State John Hay's outburst to Henry Adams: "You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout...
Even legislators who had never heard of Henry Adams were inclined to feel hit. Next day there was a great rubbing of sore heads on Capitol Hill. Senators charged the picture lowered the Senate's dignity. Three Senators (who declined to be quoted) upheld Senatorial dignity with these pungent comments on the film: "Not all Senators are sons of bitches." "Punk!" "It stinks...