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...found that his constituents were well pleased with their pay: a guaranteed minimum of $3 a day (plus board, lodging and work clothes) for ten hours' work. One of them turned out to be a former gardener at the Governor's Palace in Nassau, who had quit to improve his station in life. Said the Duke: "Andrew, I want to congratulate you on getting better wages." Replied Andrew, grinning: "Thank you, m'lord...
Plump, placid, matronly Mrs. Gertrude Berg scarcely knew what to make of it. The august Princeton University Library wanted to salt away the scripts of her radio show The Goldbergs (TIME, June 23, 1941) as "one of the best serials now being broadcast." In Old Nassau's archives The Goldbergs will find themselves beside such other candidates-for-the-classics as the best of Norman Corwin's scripts, David Loth's Woodrow Wilson, F. van Wyck Mason's Stars...
Harvard, which conquered Princeton last month at Cambridge, will face the Tigers on the Nassau court tomorrow evening. The afore-mentioned Columbia-Cornell game is the third mid-week contest...
Just what defensive tactics Brown plans to use against this formidable outfit must reain a deep dark secret; but it is a safe assumption that the strategy which held the Nassau courtmen to 32 points Saturday night may be given another airing. Whatever the result, Crimson basketball fans will see in Dartmouth what is probably the best cage combine to visit Cambridge all winter...
With the same grit and crude determination that resulted in last October's Comeford to Lyle miracle at the expense of another Tiger team, Earl Brown's rags-to-riches quintet never stopped fighting, running, scrambling. Not until they had shown their Nassau "superiors" who was boss under the backboard, and out in the keyhole, where the pivot and jump shots of Burditt, Dean Hennessey, Hugh Hyde, and George Dillon put Princeton's pot-shooters to shame. shame...