Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Champion over the Varsity 4 1/2 mile course was Pon Tuttle '40, who ran the distance in 22 minutes, 29 seconds, leading John Frederickson of Boston University by 20 yards. Spectators were surprised to see Tuttle come in with one feet bare; he had lost his right shoe a mile back...
...jocose. He said he and his friends were "not unappreciative of the compliment implied'' by New York Republicans in choosing as their candidate for Senator a member of "the legal staff of this Administration"-Lawyer John Lord O'Brian of Buffalo (see p. 12}. The shoe was really on the other foot: Lawyer O'Brian also served the U.S. ably under Republicans Taft and Hoover before the New Deal complimented* him by making him a member of its legal staff...
Room Service (RKO) is John Murray's and Allen Boretz's outrageously funny farce about the exigencies of show business on a shoe string, redesigned as a vehicle for Harpo, Groucho and Chico Marx. Groucho is Producer Gordon Miller, whose schemes for wheedling board & lodging out of a weak-spined hotel manager to whom he already owes a small fortune are hideously complicated by the arrival of an irascible hotel supervisor (Donald McBride), then of the bewildered young author whose play he hopes to produce. Harpo and Chico are Miller's equally impecunious assistants. The tumultuous efforts...
...choose a site that would be free of vibration. He finally picked Free School Lane, a narrow little street several hundred yards back from King's Parade where stand most of the Cambridge colleges. Free School Lane is still barred to all forms of transportation-except bicycles and shoe leather. In the early clays of Cavendish, equipment was meagre. When the august Royal Society condescended to send up an electro-dynamometer from London, the rejoicing among Cavendish students almost became undignified...
...CASE OF THE SHOPLIFTER'S SHOE -Erie Stanley Gardner-Morrow ($2). Shoplifting, jewel thefts and two murders solved by unorthodox, Legal Juggler Perry Mason. Less exciting than Mason's best cases, but satisfactorily murderous...