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...pitifully weak Army team was finally handed the game on a silver platter, Saturday, and although it refused the offer once, the second fumble was too much for them as they went...
...summer sun beat down into Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium last week upon a towheaded young woman who, whirling to the strains of a sweating, shirtsleeved orchestra, sang and danced passionately around a plaster head on a property platter until her feet hurt and print dress was damp and dusty. She was Erica Darbo, the Scandinavian soprano whose U. S. debut set Cincinnati agog last February in Strauss' Salome, rehearsing for her first New York appearance. The night of the performance, in costume and against a background of stars and sultry violet, Miss Darbo gained full credit...
...better half of "Me and Paul" narrated at the Yardling annual was very much apropos. Had wily Scot McKechnie been able to call upon a black Frank Merriwell in the stands, he might well have used the slugger in place of Vincent DiMaggio's fourth appearance at the platter. For after disturbing the ozone on three previous third strikes, Vince was called out the last time...
...cast a beneficent smile on the Easter Monday egg-rolling for 53,000 children on the White House lawn. Unless a real strike crisis forced him to it or until he was ready to use it as an argument for his Supreme Court plan, Sit-Downs were apparently one platter of potatoes on which Franklin Roosevelt did not intend to singe his Presidential fingers...
Dean Plimpton and his associates are determined to provide as many useful services as they can. They are not, of course, able to hand out jobs on a silver platter to complacent seniors. Nor are they able to tell a man who suddenly decided that he "wants a job" exactly what it is he desires, although they spend many patient hours in the attempt...