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...basketball tournament will start in about two weeks, with games to be played on Tuesdays and Thursdays, extending through the winter. All matches will be held in the Hemingway gymnasium. Instead of playing each team in the League once, the basketball will be a double round-robin, with each team meeting twice. The winner of the first round-robin will clash with the champion of the second in each group, to decide the League Leader, and then there will be a League I vs. League II playoff...
...Near completion was a Darryl Zanuck picture, Cadet Girl, which had been tailored around a patriotic song, Uncle Sam Gets Around, by Songwriters Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger (Thanks for the Memory). Sample lines...
Died. Maurice Leblanc, 76, "the French Conan Doyle"; in Perpignan, France. Unsuccessful poet and so-so novelist, brother of Maeterlinck's friend Georgette Leblanc (TIME, Nov. 3), in 1906 he created Arsene Lupin, "Robin Hood of the drawing rooms," saw his whodunits translated into 25 languages. Working with lead pencil in an all-glass room, he confessed himself mystified by the inspiration for his plots...
Died. Dr. Frederick Bertram Robin son, 58, ex-President of New York's City College; in Manhattan. Energetic organizer, dabbler in the arts, he was known as a campus diplomat before he ran afoul of liberal and radical students in the ideological '305, after that had a stormy time, was the subject of a mock trial, picketing, ouster movements, before he resigned...
...second feature, "Bad Men of Missouri," is a regular rip-snorting Western which should have received top billing. This time the three Younger brothers, Robin Hoods of the West, join forces with Jesse James to provide more desperadoes in one picture than we've seen in a long time. They manage to give the double crossing sheriff, Victor Jory (our favorite villain, by the way), his just deserts, and everything in the end comes out as it should...