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After a decade of giving her top billing in his movies, Herbert ("Papa") Yates, 72-year-old president of Republic Pictures, signed a new contract with his favorite cinemactress, Vera Hruba Ralston, 31, onetime Czech skater. He quietly escorted her to Burbank and bought a marriage license...
...Vera Michelis Dean '25, president of the Foreign Policy Association, will deliver the main speech at Radcliffe's Commencement, President Jordan announced yesterday...
...should have something else. Tuneful songs, original sets, and pretty faces are enough to make a good musical. The only thing either colorful or entertaining in this musical is Fred Astaire's dancing. His singing and acting are coarse and mawkish, while his skinny co-star, Vera-Ellen, shows even less talent...
Mikkola's right hand man is Bill McCurdy, who handles the field events side of track meets. McCurdy came here last year, while Vera is new this year...
...both, the last garrison of 322 British technicians left on the British cruiser Mauritius, after a night at the local Gymkhana Club and the Guest House Bar, when they made a manful effort to polish off a three-month supply of whisky in one glorious but decorous gulp. Even Vera ("Hard-Hearted Hannah") Flavell, the penny-pinching proprietress of the Guest House, had proclaimed drinks on the house. By the time the evacuees arrived at the Gymkhana Club once again for customs inspection at 8 a.m., they were too hungover to care any more. "We've done a good...