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...serial characters of our time have excited such mixed emotions as Fanny Brice's Baby Snooks. Regarded by some as a loathly brat, by others as a most comical moppet, Snooks has been a mainstay of the Maxwell House Good News show since December 1937, currently attracts, with the help of Frank Morgan, the latest thing in Munchausens, an audience estimated at about...
Field events, now the mainstay of the Varsity, are not a Yardling specialty, but as the Exeter meet showed, are a sizeable source of the necessary points. high jumper Ed Mahoney who registered the winning score in the schoolboy meet, may repeat his performance next week, but will have his hands full against the confident Indians. Cliff Howard and George Hibbard are the Crimson contenders in the shot put. In the broad jump, Bob Gillette has covered over 21 feet this year, and in his native California he done even better...
...back in the traces this year with his eye on a sent in the Varsity boat. Ted Lyman, on the Combination eight last year, has made great strides over the winter and is expected to give a real battle for one of the starting slides. Bus Curwen, now a mainstay on the swimming team, will be after the stroke seat, but since he is still working for Hal Ulen and not Bolles, it is difficult to tell what his progress in that direction...
Richard Loomis mainstay of the Winthrop House line, was a strong contender for top honors receiving a large share of the vote cast for the center spot. The other positions were all hotly-contested...
Nevertheless, the soccer eleven will work under one serious handicap, for halfback Bill Edgar will have to remain on the sidelines. Edgar has been a mainstay in the rear wall for three years, but in the vicious Springfield tilt last week he suffered a serious ankle injury that may keep him out of the Yale game also...