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...conflict scheduled for rain-or-shine performance in the Stadium today is an entirely new feature on Jaakko Mikkola's outdoor cinder program. Chief interest for the home forces is the opportunity the meet offers loss-experienced Crimson runners to prove their worth before tackling the galloping Green Gargantus next week...
...Rain or shine Jaako Mikkola's University Track and Field Handicaps will be run off this afternoon and tomorrow. From Freshmen to graduate students, veteran and novice cindermen will participate in the two day program in the Harvard Stadium. Over 135 entries will contest the 15 specialties...
...Negroes. However successful the campaign may be, it probably won't help Negroes get jobs in commercial radio. They are welcome on sustaining shows and in bit parts on sponsored programs. But no advertiser will buck racial prejudice to back a colored show or let a Negro star shine too brightly. Not even Ethel Waters, who packs them in on Broadway, could uphold a sponsored spot when she tried...
...boys get nicely settled in their tents, sans glass doors as well as the other conveniences in Little Rock, when suddenly, for no apparent reason, MOVE is the order. Mind you now, simply to the other side of the street, and rain or shine making no difference. The lads after a backbreaking day in the field have to gather all their equipment and trudge across the street...
...vast command. He is physically tough, and rides, plays golf, goes swimming even when crises are thickest. His calm is unshatterable, he can be hurried by no man. He is sociable but completely unaffected, and loves to quote Hotspur's contemptuous speech about popinjay staff officers who shine so brisk, and smell so sweet, and talk so like a waiting-gentlewoman, of guns and drums and wounds. His blood runs thick with soldiery: his first ancestor in Britain was a Deveauville who came over with William the Conqueror, and he is the third general in three generations of Wavells...