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Brown's head football coach, Charles A. (Rip) Engle, has resigned to assume the same post at Penn State, it was announced Saturday. Engle, who became head coach at Brown in 1944, lost four straight games to Harvard, before breaking the "Stadium jinx...
Right after lunch is the best time for portraits of important men, famed Portrait Photographers Fabian and Bradford Bachrach told the New York Herald Tribune's Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg. One of the Bachrachs' most difficult subjects, they said, was Thomas E. Dewey. The toughest of all was the late Rorello La Guardia, who "would never sit still." They recalled their favorite "trick"-on overworked President Herbert Hoover at the start of the 1932 presidential campaign. He was too tired to sit erect when he came in for the sitting: "We stacked seven books in a chair...
...story of how Brown broke its 11-year Stadium jinx will be projected on the Lamont Forum Room screen tonight when the Student Council presents the movies of Saturday's Harvard-Brown game. Freshman football coach henry Lamar will narrate the film...
Brown hasn't beaten Harvard in the Stadium since 1926, and Madar reports that the Bruins are out to break the "Stadium Jinx...
However, two brave individuals, Richard W. Krakeur and Robert L. Joseph, have produced one of Stringberg's finest plays, "The Father," and have given it such an intelligent production that it seems as if the jinx may at last be broken. Using Mr. Joseph's English version of the play, and with a cast headed by Raymond Massey and Mady Christians, the Messrs. Krakeur and Joseph have provided the theater with one of its most interesting and exciting entertainments in a long while...