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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nothing but the Truth (Paramount). Mildly amusing comedy, centering on Richard Dix's efforts to win a bet by telling the truth for 24 hours, is brought to life by chubby Helen Kane. Funniest shot: Miss Kane singing "Do, Do Something...
Last week Navy's crew coach Richard Glendon telegraphed to Columbia's coach: "I can't lose and may win the Navy-Columbia race." He couldn't lose because Columbia's coach is Richard Glendon Jr. Any victory would be a Glendon victory...
...Glendon Sr. did not lose his race, neither did he win it. At the end of the race Columbia's crew sat up very straight and flattened their oars as crews do when they finish first. Three lengths behind them the Navy men were still rowing. A little later they too flattened their oars but they did not bother to sit up straight. Still later, U. S. Subchaser No. 440, which had carried the Navy shells and oars from Annapolis to the Harlem River, took them back to Annapolis. Glendon Jr. did not answer his father's telegram...
...second day, long before the last of them reached Home, which was the name of Moortown's 18th hole, the people that were following them knew that the British had won the Ryder golf cup. It was big news. The U. S. had been expected to win as it won two years ago.* On the first day, when the foursomes were played, the U. S. had led, 2½points to 1½. Loose-jointed young Horton Smith from Joplin, Mo., did not play in the foursomes. Instead he followed Leo Diegel and Al Espinosa who, playing the best...
...enlisted in it already. U. S. entrants are Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. of Buffalo, Schroeder-Wentworth Associates of Glencoe, Ill., Charles Ward Hall Inc. of Buffalo, J. S. McDonnell Jr. & Associates of Milwaukee, Heraclio Alfaro of Cleveland, and Brunner-Winkle Aircraft Corp. of Brooklyn. If they do not win the $100,000 first prize, they may get one of five $10,000 "safety" prizes...