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...many stitches have been bothering Gene Clark, who now ranks as Harvard's best miler. Cross Country will help his mile running, and he should come through down at Princeton Friday. Of all the members of the team, his nice form and easy running are perhaps the pleasantest to watch. Eddie Childs and Cliff Stevens are both half-milers, and like Clark, Simboli and Tuttle are Juniors. They will be on the team of ten heading for Tigertown, as will their classmate Dick Wing, who, like Simboli, has never run before, but who followed his roommate Gene Clark down...
...still on their feet, are as helpless as the Chinese, give off just as sharp an odor of ammonia-the smell of fear. Only two of them are actually reduced to green-faced semiconsciousness but by the end of the third day all of them have queer hallucinations-the pleasantest are those of a young junior officer who, as he pours oil through the aft latrine, chatters away to a naked debutante he met in Norfolk a few days earlier...
Having Wonderful Time (by Arthur Kober; Marc Connelly, producer), the season's pleasantest institutional drama, is laid in one of the numerous cheap summer camps for New York Jews which dot the Berkshires. Those who have not visited such a resort as Camp Kare-Free may already be familiar with the nature of its patrons through Arthur Kober's piteous, humorous, sharply observed New Yorker reports, collected in book form as Thunder over The Bronx, on the year-round behavior of one-sixth of New York City's population...
These are the men who go South today to face their stiffest competition, and enjoy the pleasantest of hospitality to boot. Intensive drills have brought them to the high point of the season, and they are set to continue the string started a year ago, to take up where Dick Harlow left off in November...
Arthur H. Compton proved the pleasantest subject. He posed in his room and talked to the camera man almost an hour on the intensity of cosmic rays, and rocket ships. He held that in time we may be making journeys to the moon and the planets. He said that science was delayed by lack of funds and that we won't have another stratosphere flight for some time as it cost about $160,000 for a balloon. The photographer was referred to Jean Piccard who would only say that it costs "an enermous amount...