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Tufts came roaring back in the second half, and with 8:29 remaining in the game the Jumbos hit for seven straight points to cut its deficit to 53-46. Tempers began to flare during the Tufts surge, as Donohue and Jumbo Dick Mapp exchanged punches in a free-ball scramble and when a struggle for a rebound produced a ten-man pile-up under the basket...
With her, and settling down as her next-door neighbor, has come a dilettantish, old-maidish male (Cyril Ritchard). Against her, from the moment she arrives, is the formidable Miss Mapp, a manhunting, stop-at-nothing Nosey Parker (Catherine Willard). The struggle for primacy between the two women-Lucia's efforts to dethrone Miss Mapp as a tyrant, Miss Mapp's to unmask Lucia as a fraud-produces a series of mock-heroic crescendos and climaxes...
VICTORIA McC. MAPP...
General Booth had cut short a world tour, hastened from the Orient to London. Soon Commissioner Mapp took to his bed with high blood pressure, and his superior caused it to be announced that he was taking an extended furlough because of ill health. Commissioner Mapp, however, as if calling a bluff, demanded, under Army rules, a hearing before a secret court of inquiry. The five-officer court unanimously convicted Commissioner Mapp of whatever charges General Booth had brought against him. and gossips said that those charges involved "a woman." Indignant Commissioner Mapp announced he would sue for defamation...
Commissioner Mapp's successor as Chief of Staff: Commissioner John McMillan, 63, Scottish-born onetime secretary to Herbert Booth, Evangeline's brother, onetime commander of Central and Eastern territories...