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...Metropolitan Opera's new season started last Monday with more than the usual amount of confusion. Rudolph Bing, the Met's General Manager and trouble shooter par excellence had his hands full as six productions were put into their final form for presentation this week...
President Pusey conferred Doctor of Laws degrees on His Eminence Richard Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston; C. Douglas Dillon '31, U.S. Under-secretary of State; State Department "trouble shooter" Robert D. Murphy; Ada Louise Comstock Notestein, President of Radcliffe College from 1923-43; M.I.T President-Elect Julius A. Stratton; and Sidney J. Weinberg, a New York investment banker...
Died. Julius Howland Barnes, 86, Duluth industrialist, onetime president (1921-24) and chairman (1929-31) of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, sometime trouble-shooter for his friend Herbert Hoover; of a heart attack; in Duluth...
Although no further scoring took place, there was plenty of action, as Brandeis foiled the Crimson's freeze tactics three times only to blow easy shots under the basket, each time protesting that the shooter was fouled, This may well have been the case, but since the officials seemed to make the wrong decisions more often than not--bringing complaints from both coaches--it came as no surprise...
...Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (20th Century-Fox), a British western shot in Spain, was apparently expected to convey the satiric notion that when Hollywood reaches for the six-shooter it usually produces something of a large bore. But somehow what comes across is the wistful and delightfully absurd idea that a good many apparently tame Englishmen secretly like to fancy themselves racketing around the Wild West like pure cussedness in cowpants, blasting the bepluribus out of silver dollars at 30 paces and generally keeping the beastly natives in their place...