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...instructor, Mrs. Bruce Hamlin, Swampscott, will take over Annex dance classes and the dance group this fall, succeeding Mrs. Morris Haviland...
While John Rogers and Al Alpern lost to Knox and Haviland of Yale by decisive scores, Breck Marshall, Corny Smith, and Ned Bothfeld each overcame a 2 to 1 deficit in their matches and captured the contest for the Crimson...
Married. George Palmer Putnam, 57, author, explorer, wild-animal hunter, pet-collector, ex-Army major, ex-publisher, husband of Flyer Amelia Earhart when she disappeared in 1937 on a trans-Pacific flight; and Margaret Haviland, 36, U.S.O. executive; he for the fourth time, she for the first; in San Marino, Calif...
...Cinderella in reverse" is Miss De Haviland's own description of the plot. She plays the rich princess to Robert Cummings' poor boy, while Charles Coburn makes a gruff fairy godfather. The worst that can be said of them is that Olivia is merely silly in a few scenes and that Cummings sometimes sinks to slapstick, though even much of that is managed expertly enough to be funny...
Worst off, perhaps, were the pilots who patrolled Britain's coastal waters and hunted U-boats in ancient de Haviland training planes. They felt safer in the daylight, because when they flew home at dusk they could clearly see their eight-cylinder engine becoming red hot. When flown into a wind of more than 50 m.p.h. velocity, the de Haviland "would float sedately backward, its propeller thrashing the air with undiminished enthusiasm." Conveniently, the de Haviland not only landed as gently as "an old hen settling on her eggs," but also floated "like a balloon" on the surface...