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...satisfying their thirst. Their uniforms comprise as strange a collection as the officers'. About the only women at Shepheard's are WAASies (Woman's Auxiliary Army Service). Trim uniformed and exceptionally attractive, they drink only lemonade and feed potato chips to the little birds which romp around the floor...
...tangy and close to the soil as Tom Benton's paintings. Father and son blow their way with true amateur zest (and professional assistance from strings and voices) through three homely folk tunes: Cindy, Old Joe Clark and the fine, mournful Wayfaring Stranger. On three more sides they romp through two simple, diverting pieces (Gay Head Dance, Chilmark Suite) written for them by Edward Robinson, who accompanies on the harpsichord...
...m.p.h. Crew totals eight; armament includes machine guns, light cannon, bombs, depth charges. They are less vulnerable than laymen think, since helium is noninflammable. Airplane attack from above would be more or less ineffectual, unless their fire practically sawed off a section of the airship: some blimps can romp home despite a goodly number of bullet holes, despite losing as much as one-third of their gas volume. Such holes are easily patched, even in flight. And if the airplane swings up from below, the attack is met by heavy guns. Sure blimp-killers are anti-aircraft guns, but blimps...
...Bowdoin gunners in one week, the Crimson rifle team moves into fourth position in the loop of 16 New England teams. The match at Norwich was close enough to call for a Crimson rally in the closing minutes to provide the winning margin. The Bowdoin contest was a Harvard romp, the margin of victory rising over 100 points...
Bluebeard was a jolly, pacing romp in which the hats were especially nifty, the sly 'plot especially profuse. In the world of ballet (where troupes change the way French Cabinets used to), the new Ballet Theatre now had the edge on the Massine ballet (Monte Carlo) and Colonel Wassily de Basil's ballet (Original), which have contrived no new hits this year...