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Soon after his graduation in 1913, he was a Little Man off Campus-an efficiency engineer in nearby Oakland. It wasn't half as much fun. Remembering his father's advice, Bob Sproul stuck it out only a year-long enough to marry the girl at the next desk (says he: "I'm the victim of propinquity"). When the university cashier absconded, creating a deficit and a vacancy, Bob Sproul joyfully went back to college. He has been there ever since...
Back from a year-long run on Broadway, the man with the India-rubber legs and the pantomimic face makes an otherwise modiocre revue well worth seeing. Unchallenged master of the soft-shoe dance, Ray brought the house down with his hilarious parodies of the latter-day rhumba and jitterbug, and then went on to display further talents as a top-notch practitioner of low comedy in several skits that would have done credit to the Old Howard in its better days...
Taking over where they left off in 1943, the muscular Bunnies of Leverett House emerged yesterday as the recipients of the annual Straus Trophy, awarded annually to the winner of the year-long intramural competition in 13 major and minor sports...
Powerful Primo Camera, year-long heavyweight champ in the early '30s, was having trouble with his hands. In Knoxville, Tenn., he shook a sports promoter's hand, broke it-the promoter's-in two places. In Miami, Mrs. Rosalie B. Marano sued him for $25,000, charged that he had pawed her in an auto last February and she still hurt...
...more than a month George Catlett Marshall had stood by in China, awaiting release from his year-long mission: to mediate a compromise conclusion of China's civil war. This week President Truman recalled him to Washington. The official reason: "to report in person the situation in China." The real reason: to pave the way for resumption of normal diplomatic relations with Nanking...