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...crowd estimated at between 150,000 and 200,000 people, was a repetition of previous mediocre showings against the nation's top collegiate crews. Except for an early-season victory over Princeton and M.I.T. and the sound defeat of Yale on the Charles last month, Tom Bolles' first post-war season has been one of the least fruitful in many years...
...horde of turbaned, five o'clock shadowed extras, "A Night in Casablanca" is a funny picture, but far below the capacities of the Brothers Marx. Its primary fault lies not in the plot, but that there is a plot at all, which, vaguely, concerns a group of post-war Nazis and their attempt to transfer stolen European loot to South America. Director Archie Mayo, evidently a man with a conscience, turns his three charges into fumbling sleuths, who, finally, get their man, if not their woman. Such concern over villains and their "just deserts' cuts the Marx Brothers...
After only a mediocre showing in the first post-war regattas, the Varsity crew can expect a shuffling of oars in an effort to reach a winning summer combination. Bert Haines in charge of activities at Newell in the absence of Tom Bolles, will experiment with holdovers and returnees alike in order to add luster to a record that holds but a single win, though over Yale...
Leaving by plane Saturday, the Varsity crew will arrive on the West Coast Sunday and continue their twice-daily workouts in preparation for the finale of the Crimson's first post-war rowing season, facing the nation's strongest crews in the University of Washington's invitation regatta June...
...every facet of life in the College mind and matter seemed to get a spark of energy at the beginning of this first real post-war term, a spark that is likely to be kindled, not dampened by fall, when if the predictions come true enrollments will hit an all-time high for the College...