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...turned out, chief casualty of gory One Million B. C. was David Wark Griffith, big-shot director of Hollywood's own prehistory. Called in by the Roaches to produce his first picture since he remade Broken Blossoms in England in 1936, Griffith declined to take any credit for One Million B. C. Said he: "My name would do the film little good, and I am sure that the picture would do me little good...
These problems momentarily supplanted the world's more serious perplexities for 200,000 U. S. citizens who last week crammed into eight major-league ball parks to salute the opening of the 1940 baseball season. In Washington's Griffith Park, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, surrounded by 30,000 equally earnest baseball fans, tossed the first ball, then settled back to watch the opening day's headliner: Washington Senators v. Boston...
...race, ask the Irish Free State to sanction it, give a fat chunk of the proceeds to impoverished Irish hospitals. R. J. Duggan, the bookmaker, had experience: he had run sweepstakes before. Joseph McGrath, the politician, had a flock of friends: he had been Minister of Labor under President Griffith. With the Bail's consent, Duggan & McGrath formed the Irish Hospitals' Trust...
...first word of the incoming Queen Elizabeth. From an Eastern Air Lines plane, MBS Newscaster Dave Driscoll spotted the Queen Elizabeth at 6:52 a.m. E.S.T. At 7:17 Driscoll was radiophoning a description of her over John B.'s program. When Driscoll had about finished, Beverly Griffith, Eastern Air Lines representative aboard the plane, came on the radiophone. "Listen," said Griffith. Then, for the ears of every early riser tuned in, Early Bird Griffith sang John B. Gambling's Pepsi-Cola song from 35 miles out over the Atlantic, not missing a syllable, and smacking his lips...
...Winthrop 3 0 Dudley 3 1 Adams 2 1 Dunster 2 2 Lowell 1 3 Eliot 1 3 Kirkland 0 5 Leading Scorers Farley (Dun.) 8 Anderson (Ad.) 6 Regan (Dud.) 6 Whitaker (Dud.) 6 Blotner (Low.) 5 LaCroix (Win.) 5 Ayers (Dun.) 4 Eaton (Ad.) 4 Griffith (Kir.) 4 Swimming Won Lost Eliot 4 0 Kirkland 4 0 Lowell 3 1 Adams 3 3 Winthrop 2 2 Leverett 1 3 Dunster 1 5 Dudley...