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Some fashion designers proposed hobble skirts, hoop skirts and skirts that flapped about the ankles. Some went in for unpadded shoulders; others padded hips. Some placed their trust in the back bustle, side bustle and the wasp-waist corset, whose constrictions in the last century had been a mainstay of jokesmiths and had made its wearers subject to fainting fits and worse...
...Beach and Cypress Point), two hotels and a beach-sand processing plant, has lost money from 1932 on. When the U.S. Navy took over his famed 400-room Del Monte Hotel as a wartime training center, Duke Sam began to wonder if naval officers would not be a possible mainstay for the new depression he feared. So-why not sell the Navy his Del Monte Hotel...
...rest of the show much of a help. Ira Gershwin's lyrics are neat enough, and the mainstay of two lively ditties, Don't Be a Woman If You Can and Land of Opportunitee; but Composer Schwartz gives you nothing whatever to hum. The dancing is agreeably tame, the chorus is more slight than select, the costumes lack charm and the singing lacks body. Leonora Corbett (Blithe Spirit) and Arthur Margetson (Around the World) are helpful performers but no miracle-workers. Park Avenue never catches the mood, or captures the lure, or achieves the high spirits of genuine...
Edward S. Dewey, left tackle, came to Cambridge with the V-12's from Wesleyan and Baldwin Wallace. A mainstay on the 1945 team, 200-pound Dewey has moved over from the guard slot he filled last season...
...knew from experience that the Little World Series is baseball's best proving ground. In the early '30s at Houston, they had seen a young pitcher named Phil Cavarretta (now the Chicago Cubs' rightfielder) beat out fuzzy-cheeked Kirby Higbe (now the Brooklyn Dodgers' pitching mainstay). A few years later in Charlotte, N.C. 17-year-old Hal Newhouser (now the Detroit Tigers' 23-game winner, and the American League's most valuable player in 1944 and 1945) wept in the locker room after losing a big game. About 275 big leaguers, one in five...