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When "January Thaw" opened at the Colonial Theatre two nights ago, there were moments when the audience, with both cars cocked, could hear an option drop somewhere in the recesses of producer Mike Todd's entrepreneurial mind. There were other moments, though, when the comedy reached proportions laughable enough to obscure the tittering of an uninhibited twenty mule team...
Almost a dozen men have already undertaken to thaw out competitive skiing from its wartime ice block by mapping out a busy series of events, from preseason conditioning next month through all the major and minor collegiate meets this winter, according to John Kennedy '47, ski team manager...
Died. Dr. Smith Ely Jelliffe, 78, neuropsychiatrist, editor (Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease), belligerent Freudian, whose testimony in 1907 saved Harry K. Thaw from the electric chair; after long illness; at Huletts Landing, N.Y. He once told a group of fellow alienists that he believed Irving Berlin's mother must have had a syncopated heartbeat; a surprised confrere said that he had examined her and found...
...sudden thaw created a sea of mud. Standing ankle-deep in the ooze, perky little Montgomery said to correspondents: "The battle is going very well. But of course all this mud doesn't help, does...
...Berlin-perhaps ultimately of Germany itself. Minefields, German armor, and heavy snows so thick that correspondents said they felt, rather than saw, the movement of endless hordes of Russian men and armor, could check but could not permanently halt the hate-filled Russian juggernaut (apparently neither could an unseasonable thaw). The Germans, too, felt the Russian fury as tons of shells bored holes in the grey, low-hanging clouds and burst in sprays of red-hot fragments. On a 140-mile front, north & south of the Küstrin-Frankfurt sector, Zhukov kept the skies alight with his massed artillery...