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...auditions of the air. As Rosalinda, she showed that she is ready for bigger things than operetta. The other, blue-eyed Philadelphia-born Virginia MacWatters, a protégé of famed Soprano Lotte Lehmann, tossed off her tricky coloratura arias with the ease and precision of a knife thrower, set critics to speculating on her rosy future...
Halfway through the carnival, track coach Jaako Mikkola presented three improvement prizes and a quarter-mile trophy. The improvement prizes went to Pete Garland and Frank Coolidge, stars of last year's '45 team, and to Varsity discus thrower Jack Bonner who was not there to receive his award. Bill Ellis, also absent, was announced the winner of the Westmore Wilcox quarter mile trophy...
...spring season, the team has lost its best half-milers, Rolla Campbell and Bill Young, the leading dash man Bill Trainor, a sparkling middle-distance man Frank McKechnie, the top hammer-thrower in Phil Zeigler, and, of course, Doug Pirnie, who could be counted on for 15 points in every meet...
Evalyn Walsh (Hope Diamond) McLean, famed thrower of famed Washington parties, bought a new District of Columbia estate for a rumored $150,000, began moving her things from "Friendship," which she has sold to the U.S. for a housing project. Said she: "I shall . . . keep on ... with the same old parties and the same old friends." She bought her new diggings, complete with elaborate formal gardens, outsize ballroom, marble-floored billiard room, and swimming pool from Alexander Kirk, U.S. Minister to Egypt...
...Mortar (Republic) is a succinct and interesting treatment of the mortar's origins (500 years ago as a rock thrower), its uses, and its assembly. The picture is rather technical for a layman, but undoubtedly effective for training mortar crews...