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...morals of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis were secure, after midshipmen had given one performance of Boy Meets Girl. The play, a faintly risque farce, was obviously too much for the superintendent's wife-she swept out at the end of the second act. The superintendent, Rear Admiral James L. Holloway Jr., followed. Next day the rest of the play's three-day run was abruptly canceled...
Hapless Dunster pushed Lowell to the fastest time of the day, 4:32, with Dudley bringing up the rear. As the first two shells crossed the wire a cox-length apart, Funster rooters on shore were heard to sing mournfully a few strains of "Always A Bridesmaid." The team has decided to switch to Pond...
...American women," said he, "are wonderful-long in legs, not much in rear or breasts, but marvelously small in waist. The arm just aches to curve around." The female Mexican form is fine too, but different: "Short, luscious, round, delicate." Clothing it in "dresses designed for tall, slim and fair women ... is as becoming as a pair of pistols on the Holy Christ...
...Antarctic is no place for amateurs; and softspoken, leathery Finn Ronne is no amateur. His father was with Roald Amundsen when he discovered the South Pole; and Ronne, brought up in the mountains of Norway, first went to the Antarctic with Rear Admiral Byrd in 1933. When he goes back in a year or two ("There is a lure . . ."), Mrs. Ronne will not be with him. Says she: "Why, I didn't wear a dress the whole time I was there. The next time, I stay home...
...latest convenience is an artificial "moon," of amber and green shaded lights, that perches on a tall pole in the rear of the parking area, enabling patrons to grope their way to comfort stations and move their cars about without smashing fenders...