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Author Morton Thompson (Joe, the Wounded Tennis Player) dignifies his novelized life of Semmelweis by steering clear of the soupy fantasies that make a lot of biographical fiction worthless. The Cry and the Covenant was read for errors by a leading Manhattan gynecologist, who found none. Even the inevitably idyllic love affair (at 38 Semmelweis married a girl of 18) is anchored firmly in fact. "An editor suggested that I have him fall in love sooner," reports Author Thompson. "I said, 'What do you want me to do-make him fall in love with an eleven-year-old girl...
Despite the odds, Annex player Nina Emerson promised last night "If we go down, we'll go down fighting...
...period the midshipmen made a game of it. Then Notre Dame's first-stringers ripped off three touchdowns in 8½ minutes, and Leahy went to work. He pulled out towering (6 ft. 4½ in.) Right End Leon Hart, perhaps the best all-round football player in the business, benched Tackle Jim Martin and gave All-America Fullback Emil ("Red") Sitko the rest of the afternoon off. By scraping the bottom of his substitute barrel and forbidding the use of the forward pass, Leahy held Notre Dame scoreless in the fourth period; But the score was already...
Last spring Devergie wrote an article in the Saturday Evening Post about his father's experiences as an oboe player, presently with the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
...only one. Lenore Lonergan, another featured player in the show, and an expert comedienne, has no volume for singing, much less a voice, and she, too, is given songs to sing. Assuming that the lyric writer (Johnny Mercer, in the current case) has something to say, it would be good to hear what it is. Miss Lonergan can not be dismissed, however, as a total failure. In fact, in her non-musical moments she contributes more to the comedy than any of the other performers...