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...Meredith Rugs Again...
...Meredith '42 followed the tradition of his father, a former Crimson star and Olympic champion, when he sprinted to win the 300 yard run by a good five yards, after trailing only 20 yards from the tape. Meredith's time was 35:2. Fred Ulen '39 and Holmes of the Huskies were clocked...
Spring Madness (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Mildly amusing little collegiate comedy headlined by Lew Ayres and Maureen O'Sullivan and notable chiefly for the way in which Actor Burgess Meredith, hailed three years ago as the Hamlet of 1940. belies his reputation by bringing to his impersonation of a Harvard senior the same mannerisms he used when spouting very blank verse in Winterset...
...When he was arrested in Hamtramck, Mich., last July as a robbery suspect, Michigan authorities wanted to jail him again. But John Deering (who had shot his way to freedom once before) rather than take a 15-year jail sentence in Michigan confessed to the murder of Oliver R. Meredith Jr. in a robbery at Salt Lake City two months before. Extradited to Utah and tried for first-degree murder, he stolidly maintained that he was a habitual criminal, would be better dead. The judge agreed. Utah law gave him the choice of being hanged or shot by a firing...
Harvard Club of Philadelphia: James E. Meredith Jr., of Wynnewood; and Judson T. Shaplin, of Reading...