Harvard Lost Out in Print, May Make Recovery on Film

In more than 125,000,000 copies of "Frank Merriwell at Yale" novels, Harvard has consistently lost the annual football games and other contests, but things will be different in the "Merriwell" movies and television serials. Harvard alumni in Los Angeles have protested to the producers of the projected series.

Objections centered around the fact that whenever Merriwell plays for Yale, Harvard loses. Co-producers Tony Landon and Ira Uhr found themselves threatened with legal action if Harvard continued to lose in the movies and TV.

Landon and Uhr have found the problem of what to do a pretty tough one, since Harvard has lost to Yale in Burt L. Standish's "Merriwell" novels since time immemorial. In an effort to make everyone happy, when Uhr flies East next week he will drop in for a chat with President Conant, according to the newspaper, Film Daily.