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...professional football season reached its halfway mark last week, Laundryman George Preston Marshall's Washington Redskins, defending champions of the National Football League, were out in front in the 1938 race-as expected. Major disappointment of the season was Plunger Art Rooney's Pittsburgh Pirates, who had won only two games, lost five...
...Laundryman George Preston Marshall's Washington Redskins, defending champions of the National Football (professional) League: a game against the Detroit Lions, 7-to-5, before a crowd of 43,000; at Briggs Stadium, Detroit. With a record of three victories, one defeat and one tie this season, the Redskins led the Eastern Division of the league last week...
...from Governor of the Federal Home Loan Bank System ($10,000) to be Comptroller of the Currency ($15,000) the President last week raised Preston Delano, 52. Mr. Delano and the President are cousins but "very distant"; Mr. Delano announced he had talked to the President only thrice in his life...
...Were King (Paramount). To a guileless cinemaddict the task of making Frangois Villon dull and respectable might appear Herculean. In If I Were King, Director Frank Lloyd and Writer Preston Sturges, no doubt aided by the Hays censorship, perform it in their stride. Since there is nothing spectacularly bad about If I Were King, it will doubtless appear on every list of worthwhile films compiled by every self-appointed reviewing board in the U. S. But its makers have found not one fresh point of view, have included every available cliche of sword-&-cloak romance, plus the clich...
...Liberals, first novel by the able author of Revolution-1776, shows far fewer of these faults than some, but still needs a further purge. Author Preston has an attentive eye for present-day intellectuals' dilemmas, an attentive ear for their dialogue, considerable humor. But in pointing a solution, the best he can offer is a broken head...