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Princeton finished in the same predicament as Harvard. The Tigers were one of the top teams in District II with a 14-7 record, but five of those losses came against the leading teams in the EIBL competition. Again because of the NCAA ruling. Tom Petroff. Rider baseball coach and head of the District II selection committee, said he was forced to invite independents N.Y.U. and Seton Hall, both teams that Princeton beat, rather than the stronger Tiger team...
Other cheapie-makers who substitute ingenuity for money: Stuntman John Carpenter, who shot a full-length feature (Son of the Renegade) in 5½ days for $18,200; Boris Petroff, who buys up stock shots (i.e., background film), then fills in the stories with inexpensive actors; Herman Cohen, who frankly makes cheapies for the No. 2 spot on double bills; Albert Zugsmith, who arrived in Hollywood two years ago to make TV films, now has four cheapies ready for theater release; William F. Broidy, who put out such pictures as Steel Fist and Sea Tiger for less than...
...Russians printed their news as they made it, setting type in the fields (see cut, p. 20). One Soviet newsman, Eugene Petroff, who also serves the North American Newspaper Alliance, reported that in autumnal forests and still summery fields the Russians were "fiercely beating the Germans on a firm, established front...
...Newsman Petroff told of one Captain Voitsekovsky, who seemed sure to become Russian legend. Captain Voitsekovsky was using a church tower as an advanced observation post and had there rigged up a field telephone. Suddenly he was surprised by a German tank attack. The Captain phoned the nearest Russian artillery batteries: "Fire at me. In the church bell tower. The square is full of German tanks. Farewell, comrades!" It was the end of Captain Voitsekovsky...
...about, no one knew. Since there were no program notes, it made for good guessing as well as good watching. It seemed to have bugs, or birds, or airplanes in it, and it definitely had a shapely leopard. Safe guess: the spangly men in black (Roman Jasinsky, Paul Petroff) were up to no good with the woman in black (dark, pretty Tamara Toumanova...