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Dartmouth has had a good season, and is well headed for its sixth straight New England League title. Mainstay of the veteran nucleus has been All-American Captain Joe Wilder; in the words of Dartmouth's coach, "a team in himself...
Excellent ability and aptitude for military science and tactics won him a place on the list of those chosen to go to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, for further artillery officer training. Spreyer, a dangerous climax runner, had been expected to be the mainstay of the Crimson backfield this fall...
...Mainstay of the Group's effort to publicize intervention is encouraging members to air their opinions in the press and periodicals and over the ether. Last year over 40 articles by an imposing assortment of authors, including President Conant, Andre Merize, and Bertrand Russell, were published under the sponsorship of American Defense...
...need is more imperative economically than artistically. Chief mainstay of the box office for the past six years have been Soprano Flagstad and gusty, barrel-built Danish Heldentenor Lauritz Melchior. Almost always the pair sold out the house with their hefty love-making in Tristan and Isolde, their caroling and ho-yo-to-ho-ing in the Ring operas. Ordinarily there would be on the Met's Wagnerian bench two sopranos who could take Flagstad's place as Melchior's teammate. But last week it appeared that neither of these would be fully available...
...Benton's pictures have been the A.A.A.'s mainstay ever since its humble opening, six and a half years ago. It was then that a perky ex-publicity agent named Reeves Lewenthal opened a small office on Manhattan's noisy 42nd Street, started selling prints to department stores at $5 apiece. Most proudly pushed of his stock of prints was a figure of a Negro and a mule entitled Plowing, by Tom Benton, who, with 25 other U.S. artists, had agreed to use Lewenthal as an agent. The A.A.A.'s rise from a one-desk agency...