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Watts, who has one of the fastest shots in the game, may have trouble with his timing because of the strange courts. Princeton's Roger Campbell has been playing well, but Watts still gets the nod in both meets...
...Stimson. (Stimson's predecessor, Frank Kellogg, had irritated Curtis by ruling against Dolly.) After a chat with President Hoover, canny Henry Stimson ruled that the matter would have to be decided by the diplomatic corps. In a plenary session at the British Embassy, the harried diplomats gave the nod to Dolly Gann...
...throat out of commission. She was nervous at first, opening with two sitting ducks, Exactly Like You and Keep It a Secret. These first numbers she hit casually and with a pronounced beat, just warming up. A voice from the floor asked for some bop. Ella gave the nod to her piano man, Hank Jones, and the audience knew that this was still the old Fitzgerald...
...answer proved to be yes to any of these questions, they could be barred from the U.S. Crew members traveled on a collective visa issued for the entire ship's company and were asked only some of the embarrassing questions. Mostly U.S. immigration officials passed them with a nod and a wave...
...this year's sweepstakes, proper timing is essential. Many Oscar contenders released earlier this year (e.g., Ivanhoe, Snows of Kilimanjaro, Carrie) are commonly regarded as already too old to get an Academy nod. This strange tradition of fast-fading eligibility has produced an equally strange custom: year-end "prerelease" of most of the brightest Oscar hopefuls...