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...last week's meeting Dr. Max W. Lund of the Office of Naval Research took stock of man's abilities and compared them with those of machines. Man's sight and hearing are good, he said. The eye responds to as little as three or four quanta of light, and the ear can hear sounds only slightly louder than the ghostly rustle of air molecules clashing together. Both human sight and hearing apparatus, said Lund, are close to theoretical perfection within their class...
Barnaby's main problem lies with the bottom two positions on the team. At present, Bob Hartley, back at Harvard after three years in the Service, seems to be in the eighth position, but a group of six players, Pete Lund, Hank Holmes, Tom Lee, Bob Magowan, Ed Wadsworth, and Kent Allen, are all in contention for the ninth spot...
...equally posh confines of Newport. There, frosty and imperious Tracy Lord (Grace Kelly) delicately dithers over the three men in her life: her ex-husband, C. K. Dexter-Haven (Bing Crosby), an aristocratic jazz devotee who insists on calling her "Sam"; her husband-to-be, George Kittredge (John Lund), a stuffy fellow; and brash Reporter Mike Connor (Frank Sinatra), who is on hand to cover the wedding for a picture magazine. The romantic field is soon winnowed down to Millionaire Crosby and Reporter Sinatra. Grace gets tight and thaws visibly. She dives into a swimming pool fully clad...
Captain Jim Cameron will lead off in the singles matches, followed by Ned Weld, Bill Wood, John Tamerin, and Laurie Pratt. Either Tim Haskins or Pete Lund will play in sixth place...
Hamilton K. Allen, Walter S. Blanchard, Frederick William Byron, Jr., Jefferson T. Eaton, Charles J. Hamm (captain), Thomas S. Lee, 2d, Peter B. Lund, Wallace I. Stimpson, Peter H. Stone, Roger W. Tuckerman, Edward N. Wadsworth, John K. Howat (manager...