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...mile relay, McCurdy feels that the odds are so strongly against the varsity, that he is considering seratching his entry. The varsity is in the same heat as Mauhattan and Pittsburgh, which is anchored by Arnie Sowell, the best half-miler in the country. If he does decide to enter his team, it will be composed of Jim Cairns, Phil Williams, and two others from among Otis Gates, Ken Wilson, Wharton, and Wills...
Some of you may have thought that the Nineteenth Century mortgage melodrama was dead, but if so, you have sadly underestimated Hollywood's talent for reincarnation. "In "The Girl from Mauhattan," the second picture at the Pilgrim, the mortgage foreclosure appears with all its hideous threats and Dorothy Lamour as the hapless victim. But a few enticing twists have been added. The villain doing the foreclosing is, of all things, a church looking for a new site, and the hero is an all-American fullback turned minister. Dorothy Lamour, Charles Laughton, and George Montgomery are all involved in this hideous...
...because its author is the son of novelist Sinclair Lewis. Burton Rascoe hailed it as the literary discovery of the year, but "Time" concluded its review of the hero's attempts to get him self seduced as follows: "Finally, much to everybody's relief, a rich Rympho maniac from Mauhattan takes him in hand, and Crane goes back to college with a mighty superior attitude toward freshmen...
...following games are scheduled for today: Yale vs. the New York National League, Princeton vs. Tufts, Pennsylvania. vs. Georgetown. West Point vs. Union, Cornell vs. Virginia, Trinity vs. Fordham, Syracuse vs. Annapolis., Brown vs. Mauhattan...
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