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...pulchritude of Linda Darnell and dancing of George Murphy are present for decorative purposes, though both are outshone by Walter Brennan portraying an octogenarian with libido trouble. And for the role of Seabiscuit, a gambler's comic stooge, Milton Berle has developed an appropriate whinny, to which the Robin and Rainger tunes contrast favorably...
Miss Fenner recommends as "good books to read aloud in family groups": Hugh Lofting's Story of Doctor Dolittle, Margery Bianco's Street of Little Shops, Walter Brooks's To and Again, Kenneth Grahame's Wind in the Willows, Howard Pyle's Robin Hood and Wonder Clock, Arthur Chrisman's Shen of the Sea, Stephen Benét's Book of Americans...
Lanny chats with Leon Blum and with the protofascist sons of an ex-mistress, and indulges in some mild flirtations, but his one dissipation is his telephone talks with old Johannes Robin, his rich Jewish relative by marriage in Berlin. These talks, and Lanny's occasional visits, reveal Germany's complex political landscape-and reveal also the terrible pathos of a Scheiber (profiteer) who caught on too late...
...Johannes Robin is not half scared enough. Hitler sounds crazy and dangerous, but in Robin's experience no soup is ever eaten as hot as it is cooked. What with his son Hansi a Communist, and his son Freddi a Social Democrat, the family is splitting up badly, to his sorrow; but he has his crafty reasons to feel that he has protectors among the Nazis, and in all their conflicting camps. At length, of course, he is framed, robbed, imprisoned. He and other Jews are stuffed with strong purgatives, stripped, and forced to flog each other...
Unless several halls are unable to produce quintets, the lineup of teams will be essentially the same as it was in the football season, with two leagues in operation. Each team will play a game every week, and there may be a double round robin schedule arranged. Adolph W. Samborski '25, director of Intramural Athletics, is drawing up the calendar of games...