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...when, northwest of Trondheim, she sighted a strange destroyer. "What ship is that?" she blinked in English. The answer was gunfire. After announcing that she had engaged an enemy destroyer, the Glowworm never reported to the Admiralty again. Several days later German sources told how the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper had come down and sunk her during the battle - she had stumbled upon part of the German Fleet escorting transports north...
...more college players who put on a show for U. S. football fans last Saturday, most fabulous was big, blond Paul Christman, quarterback for Missouri. In New York City's Yankee Stadium, Christman's hipper-dipper passes and lunging plunges were the margin between victory and defeat over New York University. But Christman is more than a good footballer, he is an extraordinary one: to him football is just a game...
...being divided to protect its coasts from submarine raids, Admiral Scheer of the bottled-up German High Seas Fleet determined to venture an attack from his bases back of Helgoland. The British caught on, steamed to meet the Germans, and Admiral Beatty's battle cruisers encountered Admiral Hipper's cruisers when both sent scouts to investigate a small merchantman about 2 p.m. Beatty, with the western light at his back, took a shellacking from the German guns. When Admiral Jellicoe got there with the Grand Fleet, Scheer turned directly about and fled southwest, while the British got between...
...long as you wear the navy uniform," says old grad Lionel Barrymore to the football squad in Navy Blue and Gold, "nobody cares greatly whether you win or lose. But Navy cares greatly how you play the game." How they play the game in this film, under the hipper-dipper cinema coaching of Hollywood Director Sam Wood, is enough to make old-time Annapolis Coach Navy Bill Ingram turn over in his present berth...
...Look Now (by John Crump; Gustav Blum, producer). Author Crump's last effort produced on Broadway was a play called Hipper's Holiday, which lasted four performances. Having doubtless observed that Once in a Lifetime, Twentieth Century, Personal Appearance and Boy Meets Girl, which dealt laughably with the foibles of Hollywood, were well received, Mr. Crump has written a play about a heavily-accented cinemagnate who gets into great and voluble trouble because his blonde star skips out in the middle of a picture, leaving him with a "nut" (overhead...