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...year the Varsity skaters play host to Princeton at 8 o'clock tonight at the Boston Skating Club. In case of a tie series with Yale, the playoff would be scheduled for the Arena, but, barring this happy eventuality, the six is about to pass into local oblivion...
Besides its Sugar Bowl program, New Orleans has still another sport to offer: horse racing. Its historic Fair Grounds, rescued from oblivion last winter by a syndicate of local citizens headed by creosote-rich Sylvester W. Labrot Jr., may once again become a center of winter racing. Last week, anticipating an exodus of thoroughbreds from Santa Anita, President Labrot ordered 300 new stalls built, got ready to welcome California's war refugees...
...Litvinoff was glad to get back. The U.S. was the scene of his greatest diplomatic triumph: the U.S. recognition of Russia which he negotiated in Washington in 1933. But when Moscow was attempting to appease Adolf Hitler, Litvinoff's hatred for Naziism forced him into oblivion...
...dust from whence he sprung, in the last judgment valuable only as an influence. Sweelinck, too, will prove to many that importance does not necessarily mean dullness, but will then creep back into his historic little cubby-hole, into that dictionary significance which is only one shelf above oblivion. But a recital including works by these men, work which if not memorable is at least fresh and sturdy, and vital to an understanding of the Bach tradition, should be noted down as a major event...
Arthur C. Hyman '42, composed a slightly erotic piece inspired by signs along the Merritt Parkway, entitled "Keep Right Except When Passing." Though now it has drifted into temporary oblivion, the most easily remembered verses go something like this: "Keep right except when passing, get control of your nerves, 'cause soft shoulders mean dangerous curves . . . . Keep right except when passing, both hands on the wheel, steer straight to love, baby, you know the way I feel...