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...series of alternating songfests and bursts of earthy, or rather marine humor are strung together by a plot involving the fleet gunnery prize, an expert gun-pointer whose hitch expires just before target practice begins, and the girl who persuades him to re enlist. Jack Oakie, who has staked his petty officer's savings and his ship's trophies on the outcome, exercises more ingenuity and resourcefulness than his script-writers. Martha Raye opens her mouth wide, and makes faces, Ann Sheridan is also in the cast...
...Happiness, by Therese Lewis and Lota Kriendler, for Helen Hayes. A cleverly strung idyl of parting and reconciliation, just what was in the tea leaves for Actress Hayes...
Bookmakers did not agree. The smooth-running Yankee machine may hit on all cylinders after four weeks of coasting; while the high-strung Dodgers, after a neck & neck race with the St. Louis Cardinals since the first week of the season-a race during which the Dodgers were in and out of the lead ten times-may be on the verge of collapse. So bookies last week quoted odds of 2-to-i on the Yankees to win the World Series for the fifth time in six years...
Into narrow twisting Vladivostok one day last week slid the bulk of the U.S. oil tanker, L. P. St. Clair. To battling Russia she brought barrels of high octane gasoline. Next day the Associated was berthed beside her with 95,000 barrels more. Early this week another arrived. And strung like a chain across the Pacific still more tankers wallowed along from the U.S. to Russia, right between the Japanese islands of Honshu and Hokkaido. If not actively fighting Fascism, the U.S. was helping to fuel the fight against...
...chairs for Class Day, although 4,000 were never unfolded; 2) tradition dictated that bay trees must adorn Class Day dances, although the only bay trees available, always rented from the same company, had become "mangy" from age, storms and costly trips to & from Cambridge; 3) Japanese lanterns were strung up at an annual cost of $1,000 long after the arrival of daylight saving made them unnecessary. Morse cut Class Day and Commencement chair costs from...