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This is the third successive week that the Crimson will have to face a team that no one has seen play. Columbia's opener with Princeton last Saturday was cancelled when senior Lion linemen Bernie Jansson and Don Page were believed victims of infantile paralysis. Princeton dug itself up a last minute game with Now York University and scored 54 points...
...cast as the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz. The job took six months and almost put him in the hospital. The banks of arc lights used for color film created murderous heat and he worked clad in long underwear, football shoulder pads and lion skin. It took two hours a day to apply his tricky makeup, and in every scene he was dependent, not only on his own art, but on a lackey who perched above him with a fishing rod and manipulated his tail...
...success he learned the bitter truth. Hollywood wanted comedians who had romantic appeal. He worked in 26 pictures in all, but almost always in secondary parts. Finally he sold his $85,000 English provincial house to Betty Grable. "After all," he sighed, "how many parts are there for a lion?" He came back to New York...
Until 1939, we were a world power, almost THE world power, and it was always good politics to twist the lion's tail. It raised a laugh all the way from Capitol Hill to Cairo and Teheran. We, in England, could never understand the ingratitude of other people whom we had helped (for their own benefit of course-and our profit), but we were rich enough to shrug our shoulders and let the matter pass. Now there is little fun in twisting the poor lion's tail. Instead, a new game has been invented. Uncle...
Private Dread. Now that Premier Nahas' once popular Wafdist government is troubled by financial scandal, and his people by economic distress, he turns-as Egyptian politicians always have-to twisting the lion's tail. Privately, Nahas Pasha, like King Farouk and the rest of Egypt's upper crust, probably dreads nothing so much as the withdrawal of Britain's defensive screen. Without it, Egypt would be in poorer shape to resist the Russians, its own restless mob, and the Israelis, whom many Egyptians still fear. The British are convinced, as they were in Iran, that...