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Along with the robin horde, the capital's surest harbinger of spring appeared last week in Washington: John Lewis, pallid as a mushroom, clothed like a mortician, was on the job. "The winter is now gone," he said. He had arrived to talk about a coal strike...
...Bolles saw his first robin yesterday. The next step in the Crimson's spring crew campaign will come this afternoon, when Bolles shells hit the waters of the River Charles for the first chilly workout amongst drifting ice floes...
Margaret Truman was coming right along. In Washington, she danced with Hollywood's beautiful Robert Taylor at the Navy Relief Society Ball. In Philadelphia, the Robin Hood Dell concert people wanted her for a July concert (at a reported $2,500), and it looked as if she might drop over from the Dell and pitch a few notes to the Democratic National Convention...
...arbitrarily fired." Hearst's veteran Chicago Critic Ashton Stevens published a wire he had sent to Rodzinski: "I used to think the Capone mob retarded civilization in Chicago, but tonight I feel that the Orchestra Hall boys [the trustees] have made Al and his gang look like Robin Hood and his merry men. ... So they huddled upstairs and gave you the black sack. . . . God help the knowing ears of Chicago...
...House wining the round robin tourney will gain possession of a trophy awarded by the Debate Council...