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Nearly every gal on the floor had a date. Everyone was driving down-with Harvard men, of course. I almost died listening to them bubble about their plans. Sue was cutting classes and going down Friday morning cause hr man captains the Eliot House football team...
...Yachting handicaps are logarithmically calculated by a complicated formula involving length, sail area, etc.; and Chubasco had a small handicap. More than ten hours later, Morgan's Dolphin II sailed past Diamond Head, the winner. Corrected time (after subtracting more than two days' handicap): 11 days 1 hr. 3 min. 59 sec.-a new record...
...most memorable thing about the show is that Stunter Paul Mantz, in an effort to publicize it, flew from coast to coast in 6 hr. 7 min. 5 sec., breaking a transcontinental record...
...Best Years of Our Lives (Goldwyn-RKO Radio) gives Hollywood its cleanest fall, to date, in its wrestle with postwar problems. It is a big (2 hr. 45 min.), shiny, star-studded show that should appeal to practically anyone who can be lured inside a movie theater. Producer Goldwyn, cheerfully shooting the works on as glittery a collection of scripting, directing, acting and technical talents as $3 million could buy, has bought himself a sure-fire hit-with a little to spare. Like most good mass entertainments, this picture has occasional moments of knowing hokum; but unlike most sure-fire...
...order to keep government control to its necessary minimum, a Liberal favors cooperation and collective bargaining between industry and organized labor. He is a defender of labor's right to strike and to do anything lawful to enable it to meet industry on equal terms; but hr opposes "racketeering" and greedy, short sighted practices by either unions or employers...