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Whatever the situation in the country will be there is still the problem of the Eastern competition which will probably be stiffer this next year than last...

Author: By William W. Tyng, | Title: War Smashes Olympic Dreams of West Coast Crews; East-West Race Possible | 10/5/1939 | See Source »

Like all dangerously powerful Hollywood figures, Myron Selznick is often rumored to be "slipping." In the ups-&-downs of the agency business, Agent Selznick has faced stiffer competition since his valuable partner Frank Joyce died two years ago and since Leland Hayward, Margaret Sullavan's husband, pulled out of the Selznick partnership. Last year Hollywood gasped when 20th Century-Fox's President Joseph M. Schenck, exasperated with Selznick's demands for Loretta Young, ordered him off the Fox lot. So far, the only person who has caught Myron Selznick napping is his friend and client, Carole Lombard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hotfoot Man | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Frank Vaughan, inter-House swimming coach, said that this year he noticed stiffer competition for the house teams. Several of the Houses sport some very good mermen. The Eliot team has several Jayvees who eventually hope to make the Varsity. At the meet between the Elephants and the Deacons, Colles C. Stowell '39 paced a new inter-House backstroke record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elephant Mermen, To Meet Eli Champs Here on Eleventh | 2/23/1939 | See Source »

...first intimation of a stiffer policy came when a new watchman, whose function it is to watch Hemenway Gymnasium, refused to wink at the students' time honored tendency to regard the 7 o'clock deadline for cocktail parties as a more rough idea of when festivities should be called...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lawyers No Longer Able to Entertain Women in Hastings Hall in Evening | 2/8/1939 | See Source »

Victorious once but anticipating stiffer resistance in their second encounter with the Terriers, the Varsity nine today journeys to Riverside to engage B. U. at 4 o'clock in a return engagement. At the same time the Yardlings will meet the Boston University Freshmen here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mahoney First Choice for Mound Duty Today at B.U. | 4/27/1938 | See Source »

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