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Best skit in Washington's famed Gridiron Club show this winter was laid on cloud-bedecked Mt. Olympus (a setting borrowed from Lunt & Fontanne's successful play, Amphitryon 38). In it Mercury reported to Jupiter on the affairs of the Earth below, and Jupiter told Mercury how he ran Olympus. Excerpt...
Sole Crimson representative at the thirteenth annual East-West gridiron battle in San Francisco, Joe Nee. Varsity guard, saw service Saturday as the favored Easterners were held to a scoreless tie before 58,000 fans at Kezar Stadium...
...Yangtze River, Franklin Roosevelt summoned Secretary of State Cordell Hull to the White House, asked in no uncertain terms to have Japan's sacred Son of Heaven informed of the feelings of the President of the U. S. C. Major social event of the Presidential week was the Gridiron Club Banquet, at which the President's remarks are, by strict rule, completely off the record. Sharpest of the six skits written by Washington newspapermen concerned Associate Justice Hugo LaFayette Black of the Supreme Court who, unlike Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, Associate Justices James C. McReynolds and Harlan...
...Visiting Washington for the Gridiron Dinner, Kansas' onetime Governor Alfred M. Landon called at the White House, later retailed to the press a story he had told his 1936 rival...
Since you made passing references to Centre College's former dominance on the Southern gridiron in your informative Southern football writeup ("Time", Oct. 25), the following facts may enthrall...