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Returning once more to their high-scoring stride, after losing to Princeton a week ago, the Varsity lacrossemen lashed 12 markers past the goalie to defeat the Boston Lacrosse Club 12-2 on the Business School field Saturday. Edmands, Captain England, and Bosworth led the Crimson to victory with five, four, and three goals respectively...
Such words as the English managed to insert edgewise the German assimilated without pausing in his stride. At 7:15 p. m. Sir John and Capt. Eden withdrew with negotiation not yet begun. At their Embassy correspondents were given to understand that "the best that can be hoped for" is that Germany will demand as of right an Army as large as the largest (Russia's), an air force as large as the largest (France's) and a navy 30% as large as His Majesty's Government's. "This," prominent Nazis said, "will be sufficient until...
Each contestant must seize his charts from the ward supervisor. Then he is required to make a complete circuit of the room, only breaking his stride to smile an inclusive grin at the ceiling. No answers are required to any stupid questions and most of them fall in this category. A good man can make it in seven seconds...
Possibly the Crimson has hit its real stride and can again skate over the Elis but the past has shown Harvard and Yale particularly favorable to the underdog. And Yale is in that favored position...
...whose The Whole Town's Talking last week had its Manhattan première (see below). Now 40, Scenarist Riskin was brought up in Baltimore, attended Columbia University for two years. After 15 years as a cinema director, playwright, free-lance producer and scenarist, he struck his stride with Lady for a Day, has since become one of Hollywood's highest-paid writers.* He lives at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, plays expert tennis, writes longhand. Says he: "In writing for the stage there is an enormous satisfaction. . . . Adapting stories for the screen is often a thankless...