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...lush assortment of girls, much bright costuming and some stylish Norman Bel-Geddes sets give The Seven Lively Arts its fine as well as foolish moments of display. Best moment: a spirited extravaganza celebrating Producer Rose's past glories (Jumbo, the Aquacade, Carmen Jones)-a fetching but futile attempt of the Rose to outbloom the Lillie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Revue in Manhattan, Dec. 18, 1944 | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

Alexander filled the post left vacant by burly General Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo") Wilson, who will go to Washington as head of the British Joint Staff Mission (succeeding the late great Field Marshal Sir John Dill). Into Alexander's place, as commander of the Fifteenth Army Group in Italy, stepped lanky Mark Clark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: ITALIAN FRONT: Field Marshal No. 8 | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

...October, Pledge Soik was thoroughly fed up with "assuming the position" to be paddled, with being waked up at 3 a.m. for more of the same, with being especially singled out for hazing because he laughed at upper classmen's high jinks as juvenile mumbo-jumbo. He turned in his pledge pin, asked Dean Scott Goodnight for assignment to a dormitory room. The Dean questioned him closely, found that his fraternity elders had not only paddled him 27 times, but had made him bake himself at the fraternity hearth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Veteran Hazed | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

...England two mile champ Duncan Blanchard, a well-balanced Jumbo harrier team defeated the Crimson, 23 to 33, Saturday, over the local 3.7 mile riverbank course. Jumping off to an early lead, Blanchard outdistanced his field and coasted home in the winning time of 18:49.2 for a new collegiate handicap course record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARRIERS LOSE RACE TO JUMBOS BY 23-33 | 10/3/1944 | See Source »

...powerful Jumbo squad is Duncan Blanchard, former Harvard V-12 man, now a transfer at Tufts. Holder of the collegiate record for the 3.7 mile handicap course, Blanchard will be favored to take first place tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON FACES TUFTS RUNNERS | 9/29/1944 | See Source »

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