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Take My Life (Rank; Eagle-Lion). An opera singer's husband is accused of strangling a former mistress; his wife (sumptuous Greta Gynt) finds out whodunit. This English thriller in the Hitchcock tradition is no world-shaker, but it is done with intelligence and a flair for fright...
After a year of coaching at a prep school in Shaker Heights, Ohio, Boston came back to Cambridge as the Freshman coach in 1940 and 1941. "We played a lot of football those years," Boston says, "but I hope the won and lost records are well buried in the books by this time." Cleo O'Donnell, last year's Varsity captain, played on one of his teams...
...ghosts of Ruddigore had shouted: "Coward, poltroon, shaker, squeamer, blockhead, sluggard, dullard, dreamer, shirker, shuffler, crawler, creeper, sniffler, snuffler, waller, weeper, earthworm, maggot, tadpole, weevil...
...same time, the Board announced the appointments of Richard N. Gardner '48, of Adams House and New York City, as sports editor, and Richard B. Steuer '47, of Dunster House and Shaker Heights, Ohio, as co-circulation manager...
...Shakers were also intensely practical. Mother Ann insisted that her converts be "hand-minded." "Put your hands to work and your hearts to God," she said. The furniture they made, first for themselves and later for sale, was strong and simple. Yet it is some of the most beautiful furniture ever produced in the U.S. Their solid brick houses and great barns also have an austere beauty. Though Shakers had little use for book-learning, they were inventors. In an ecstatic vision, Shaker Sister Sarah Babbitt invented the buzz saw. Shakers are credited with inventing the one-horse shay...