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...football fields. Get equipment today at your earliest convenience at Dillon Field House between 9 and 5 o'clock. The coaches will be as follows: William L. Phinney 3L, Winthrop House; Eward S. Amazeen, Lowell House; William H. Sturges, Phillips Brooks House; W. C. Brister 2G.B., Leverette House; Harold Yap, Eliot House; William Brooks 2L, Kirkland House; William Burrage, Adams House; Adolph W. Samborski, Dunster House...
...patriot and the hot desires of a journalist are constantly interbreeding, raised his head alertly at Japan's announcement, last spring, that though she had withdrawn from the League of Nations, she had no idea of relinquishing her League-given mandate over the Marianne, Caroline, Palau, Yap and Marshall Islands in the Pacific (TIME, April 3). The Yellow Peril has for 30 years been a great circulation-getter for the Hearstpapers, which the Hearst-whooped Spanish War put on the map. Here came the Yellow Peril to squat permanently between the U. S.-possessed Philippine and Hawaiian Islands...
When President Hamilton Holt dismissed Professor Rice (brother-in-law of Swarthmore's President Aydelotte), TIME, may have mistaken the yap of a small undergraduate minority for a case of widespread indignation. It now appears that President Holt did indeed have "good and sufficient" reason for the exercise of his executive authority; and that there was no genuine issue of Liberalism. TIME awaits the final report of the American Association of University Professors on the Rice inquiry and meanwhile regrets any injustice it may have done...
Elmer the Great (First National), based on a play by Ring Lardner and George M. Cohan, is a sophisticated version of baseball's saga of the yap rookie who makes good. This is the second time the play has been done in sound but the treatment is fresh, the characters new. Elmer (Joe E. Brown) is a temperamental yap. The Chicago Cubs buy his contract, find he has lost interest in baseball, make a deal with his girl (Patricia Ellis) to lure him into camp. There he bats out their best pitcher, walks off raging because they are incompetent...
...suffers a severe and costly reverse when it unsuccessfully attempts to seize the Bonin Islands, 500 mi. south of Japan. From Samoa as a base it has better luck when it takes Truk Island in the Carolines. With dummy battleships it feints at Guam, later at Yap. The latter gesture, as planned, brings the Japanese Grand Fleet at top speed from Manila. The U. S. Battle Force cuts it off, forces it to fight. In a major engagement near Yap the Japs are hammered to bits, losing five capital ships to two for the U. S. With the enemy fleet...