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Differences in opinions occur all too frequently. Witness the reviews given "Woman of the Year" and "King's Row" last week by two fairly reputable critics of motion pictures. In the New Yorker, Russell Maloney, who knows what he's talking about, called "King's Row"--"a job done crisply, competently and with confidence," and then proceeded to pan "Woman of the Year." Sunday, in the New York Times, Bosley Crowther, who also knows what he's talking about, says of "King's Row"--"utterly depressing and artistically sour" and then says of the other, that it is a film...
Members of Varsity squads will not be required to report for this class, but the coaches of all sports will conduct setting up exercises before and after practice sessions. This will occur mostly in sports such as baseball and tennis rather than in the more vigorous sports such as lacrosse and football...
According to latest theory, said Dr. Cloward, unconsciousness is caused by microscopic changes in the brain cells; these changes occur when the brain is rapidly jogged out of place, at a speed of at least 23 feet per second. A heavy blow moves the head, displaces the brain, causes injuries over its entire surface. Shell splinter wounds, said the doctor, did not cause unconsciousness because the fragments traveled at such terrific speed that "the head was struck, perforated and penetrated before the brain as a whole had time to be set into motion...
...Since cosmic rays and the earth's slight natural radioactivity have identical ionizing effects, some biologists believe them to cause the small number of mutations which normally occur in all plants and animals and whose occasional increased fitness-for-survival is one of the mainsprings of evolution...
...expected, however, did not occur. Allowing their opponents only three first places out of a possible nine, the Ulenmen rang up a 53 to 22 win and, incidentally, their third straight victory in the current campaign. Prior to the Varsity meet, the Yardlings defeated the Brown Freshmen by the equally decisive margin...