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Scoring five wins in six singles matches, but dropping all three doubles matches, Coach Jack Barnaby's victorious racquet-wielders sent the Dartmouth squad down to defeat by a 5 to 4 count yesterday afternoon on the visitor's courts...
...about time that such a reputable journal as TIME stopped reiterating that old gag about Henry VIII being the founder of the Anglican Church? . . . For example, in "Bureau oi Information" published in the Roman paper known as Our Sunday Visitor (issue of April 1940), the question "Who founded the Episcopal Church?" is answered in this way: "The Episcopal Church is a branch of the Anglican Church. . . . This Church was not actually founded by Henry VIII . . . but under Edward VI and Queen Elizabeth the present Church was formed." At last someone in Rome has discovered that Henry did not found...
...drinking, ugly doctor-husband got mixed up in sex scandals, she either denounced the girl or paid no attention. (Dr. Wilde, knighted nine months before his worse scandal, left a family in every farmhouse, said G. B. Shaw.) Grieved that Oscar was not a girl (he looked, said a visitor, like a little Hindoo idol), Speranza consoled herself by naming him Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, dressed him like a girl, let him stay up to mingle with the bohemians, patriots and poets who flocked to her salon...
...Frequent visitor to Mickey and the Pankeys is Mom's ex-husband, Mickey's father, Joe Yule, with whom Mickey sometimes goes to the fights. Mickey had little trouble persuading MGM to hire his father for pictures after Joe Yule had been hoofing at a downtown Los Angeles burlesque house, billed as "See Mickey Rooney's Father." By hiring his father, the studio also hoped to end Mickey's backstage visits to the burlesque house...
Some time ago a studio visitor asked him if he was as tough offstage as on. "Sir," said Mickey, "I am an actor...