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Adam's Rib (MGM) again presents Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy as the ideal U.S. Mr. & Mrs. of upper-middle income. This time, besides being wittily urbane, both are lawyers. The determined deadpan whimsicality of their relationship is indicated by the fact that he calls her Pinkie and she calls him Pinky. Hepburn's elegantly arranged bones and Tracy's assurance as an actor make them worth looking at in any movie, but the stars are called on for some aggressive cuteness in this one. Item: during a courtroom duel between them, Pinky is forever dropping...
...Bellboys, after a disappointing season, face Pierson without the services of quarterback Bob Woodruff, a fine passer and clever ball handler, who broke his rib in Monday's Kirkland game. Lowell needn't mourn too much, however, because the Pierson Slaves' only claim to fame is five straight losses, and ten injuries in their first game
...drivers, they are rather well off. They turn over every once in a while and suffer an occasional broken rib, but the injury rate is definitely lower for them than it is for the customers. All a driver's protection comes from two pipe braces, which criss-cross over the driver's head and keep the roof from caving in when a car overturns. Except for the windshield, there is no glass in the form of windows or headlights which might shatter in case of collision. The driver is equipped with an aviation-type safety belt and a football headgear...
...collision at home plate as Crosby tagged out Bob James in the first inning had caused the injury. The varsity catcher was removed to the hospital, where doctors diagnosed the injury as a broken rib and a severely punctured lung. They placed Crosby in an oxygen tent and forecast that he could not be moved from it for at least three days...
Authorities at the New Haven Hospital reported late last night that varsity catcher Clif Crosby, injured in yesterday's game with Yale, has been placed in an oxygen tent and will not be moved for three days. They disclosed that the broken rib Crosby suffered that yesterday had punctured his lung...