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...Edmund G. McGuigan 3L starts from scratch with a good chance to break the tape. Howard S. Derrickson '35 and Carlisle R. Abell '35 will be close contenders for honors in this event...
...Italian track meet, Luigi Beccall, headlined 1500-meter star, has indicated a preference to run his event as a scratch affair rather than on a handicap basis. As the result Bay Esters, assistant dean in the Business School, Morton Jenkins of M.I.T., and Ben Hines of B.C. will start on even ground with the Olympic champion...
...between some disappointingly pedantic travel books, had an inferior taste, a gritty quality that set some teeth on edge. Last week readers of his latest novel were loudly disagreeing with each other about whether this new departure was or was not in a right direction. Critics had to scratch their heads to classify A Handful of Dust. In essence a satire, the story rises from farce to high comedy, reverses itself in melodramatic leaps into what most plain readers would call tragedy. As up-to-date as this week's London smartchatter, A Handful of Dust is no tragicomedy...
Last week came the day to open Old Forge schools for another year. Almost the only teachers to show up at school were the 24 newcomers. "Scab teachers!" growled miner fathers, and kept their children home. "Scab teachers!" shrilled miner mothers as they rushed out to pull hair, scratch faces. "Scab students!'' yelled football players, happily pummeling nonstriking pupils. Up & down the streets marched strikers and sympathizers with flying banners...
...debauchery on the part of ancients who did not believe in God. Since Cleopatra has nothing to do with Christianity, it lacks most of the emotional impact DeMille usually gets into his pictures. The best substitute for emotion is spectacle but even here De Mille is not up to scratch. Audiences that expect nothing less than a World War from him are likely to be disappointed that the most spectacular shot in Cleopatra is one of the inside of her barge with 500 oar handles moving slowly to the thumping rhythm of a large firegong. Eight thousand extras were supposed...