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...sleep like a dog." The "Scholar War Lord" Wu Pei-fu. not satisfied with this formula, took Li into his home and was lectured on "how to get the most out of each century" by maintaining "inward calm." Some said he had buried 23 wives, was living with his 24th. a woman of 60, had descendants of eleven generations. The fingernails of his venerable right hand were six inches long. Yet to skeptical Western eyes he looked much like any Chinese 60-year-old. In 1930 Professor Wu Chung-chieh, dean of the department of education at Chengtu University, found...
...Olympic 400-metre champion, Bill Carr, injured last month in an auto accident, watched Penn's one-mile relay team (Edwards, Schaeffer, Jones. Healey) run the second fastest race in Penn Relay history, with Yale second and N. Y. U., the favorite, third. In Des Moines, at the 24th Drake Relay Carnival: Ralph Metcalfe, famed Negro sprinter of Marquette, after three days of outdoor practice, retained his 100-yd. championship (but failed to set the new record of 9.2 sec. he had hoped for), ran as anchor man on the Marquette team that beat Nebraska...
...before a socialite audience in Boston's little Peabody Playhouse strode tall, slender Francis Grover Cleveland, 29, son of Grover Cleveland, 24th President of the U. S. Cried he in a full tenor: "Heh, heh, me proud beauty! Now I have you in muh powah!" Complete with cutaway, half-inch diamond and curling black mustache, he was impersonating Villain Richard Murgatroyd in a modern burlesque of oldtime melodrama called Gold in the Hills, or the Dead Sister's Secret. The audience approved his performance with hearty hisses. The production was the first by a semiprofessional stock company...
About thirty yards behind Barker came Joe McCluskey of Fordham, while Otty of Michigan State and Arthur Foote '33 came in third and fourth. The next Harvard man after Foote was A. S. Pier '35, in 24th place. Then came J. S. Hayes '33 in 29th place, James Parton '34 in 35th place, and C. F. Woodard '35 in 38th place...
...drive on the second tee. Steadying down, they were all square at the turn, but at the end of the first round Somerville had the edge 1 up. He increased his lead to 2 up in the first two holes of the afternoon, then went ragged. On the 24th Somerville chipped poorly, took two futile putts, finally conceded a 7 to Goodman's cool if not brilliant 5, making it all even. Taking the 25th and 27th (with a birdie 2 to Somerville's 4) Goodman made it 2 up and seemed ready to carry the title back...