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...main defects in the Harvard line are defects which the finest coaching in the world cannot remedy--lack of depth and lack of speed. No one can pluck 210-pound ten-second tackles out of thin air, and no one can make show men run fast...
...ten-second exposure to the average machine, the commission estimated, a child might get as much as ten roentgens of radiation. "That's just ten too many for a useless exposure," said Dr. Daniel L. Seckinger, District health officer. For normal feet, the authorities considered the machines useless; for abnormal feet they may still be used-by a licensed doctor...
Dash--also should be all right in the spring, depending largely on Dick Weiskopf, who is capable of a ten-second 100 and a 5.5-second 50. Murray Pearlstein tries too hard, but runs quite well when he concentrates on form. Dave Carter, Bill Geick, and Larry Sperber are fair. Thayer can do rather well in the 220 but is essentially a quarter-miler...
...Olivia de Havilland, in accepting the Best Actress Award (for her work in To Each His Own), came onstage as gauzy and misty-eyed as a Walt Disney angel. She began with a ten-second acceptance speech of simple thanks, fought for control, lost, talked on for another ten seconds and still another. Later, when her sister, Joan Fontaine, rushed backstage to congratulate her, Olivia froze and moved away. (The girls were standoffish even before Joan beat out Olivia for the 1941 Oscar...
Once started, the take-offs had to be run with stopwatch accuracy. At ten-second intervals the tow planes moved in from the sides, gently tautened the line, then poured on power and roared down the runway and off into the sky. By then the day had dawned clear and bright, with a near-perfect ten-mile wind...