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...rich American father so ghastly nauseated that he would fall overboard from an ocean liner in order, for purposes of the plot, to be rescued by a fishing smack. A Wheeling "stogie" did the trick-not an overdose of ice cream sodas, as in the movie version. The lad was no sissie...
Bowie would not say whether he will accept Miss Sheridan's invitation, but admitted that he would probably screen well. A curly-harried pleasant lad, Bowie is interested in crooning and has also dabbled in musical comedy...
...musical celebrities. When TIME printed Mme Flagstad's portrait on its front cover, John clipped and sent it to her to be autographed. Instead of the cover, Mme Flagstad sent back a large autographed original portrait of herself. Overwhelmed by the great one's friendly gesture, the lad wrote her to ask whether he could meet her when she visited Rochester on a forthcoming Metropolitan road tour. Gladly, she replied, would she see John backstage between the second and third acts. The date was kept and they had a pleasant little visit. The following year, when she sang...
When he arrived in New York from his native Chile three months ago, Arturo Godoy was scarcely noticed by U. S. sportswriters. They remembered that he lad visited the U. S. twice before (in 1933 and 1937), that his greatest feat had been outroughing Tony Galento in a six-round preliminary bout on the Braddock-Louis championship card in June 1937. That he would not last four rounds against the Brown Bomber was the general prediction. Some openly complained that he had no right in the same ring with Louis, that his best punch could hardly knock down...
...concentrate on the relays at the intercollegiates. As a fitting climax, Lighbody may break his own record at the meet. It is expected that Cornell's new Sophomore star, Ken Zeigler, Jim Ord of Yale, and either Dick Howard or Stafford King of Dartmouth will push the fair haired lad to a new low time...