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...Henry Robbins '37, the Vocal Club under the tuition of Malcolm Holmes '28 has been working on three Russian songs; "Song of the Volga Boatmen", "Fireflies", and "At My Father's Doorstep". Also included on the program are the two dities, "What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor?" and "The Pope." An innovation will be accompaniment of the Vocal Club by the Banjo and the Mandolin Clubs in two of the folk songs...
...impossible not to loathe and admire Captain Bligh just as much as in the book. From the moment he ordered the flogging of the dead sailor to the instant when he left the court martial, we felt just as strongly as Fletcher Christian. Even during his moments of greatness when he was navigating an open boat 3500 miles out of sight of land, he never lost his sadistic and narrow outlook. Charles Laughton became Captain Bligh...
...furious spiral of wind and water swept 27 officers & men off the destroyer Yugiri, 24 off the destroyer Hatsuyuki and one off the broad deck of the aircraft carrier Hosho. All were lost. Tersely adding up, Japan's Navy Office swelled the list with a final Japanese sailor who "was killed" aboard the destroyer Mutsuki last week, bringing to 60 deaths the price of this year's naval games...
...Henry Pylkowski ("Babe Risko"), 22-year-old ex-sailor of Syracuse. N. Y.; his 25th professional fight, against Teddy Yarosz of Monaca, Pa., for the middle-weight championship of the world; winning twelve of 15 rounds; in Pittsburgh...
Texans wore straw sombreros, Kansans paper sunflower hats, Marylanders yellow and black capes, Californians sailor suits. And because Philadelphia was host last week to the 35th International Christian Endeavor convention, certain youthful Pennsylvanians wore Liberty Bell contraptions labeled, HELLO I'M GLAD TO SEE YOU. At Convention Hall 12,000 young people, aged from 16 to 27, paid $2 registration fees. Claiming thaT 40,000 attended some sessions, officials inaccurately called it "the largest youth gathering in the history of North America." Apparently they had forgotten that in 1895 a rousing Christian Endeavor convention in Boston drew...