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...27th. The whole week's newspapers in piles around the room. I pick up the latest from the table and settle back. "Wedding on June 3. Americans at Chateau de Cande". And on and on, column after column without end. Pictures, too. "The Duke and his finance strolling in the chateau garden. Mrs. Warfield's dark Buick riding through the countryside." To Hell with it all. Let's have a book, something good, something old. Out of the bookcase the thick, leather-bound Shakespeare. Flipping the pages, one by one, dozen by dozen. Macbeth, no, gloomy. Two Gentlemen of Verona...
...style as simple, unspectacular and effective as his way of going up a hill, he tells how he decided it was more comfortable to run on his heels than on his toes; why he came in 12th in his first Olympic race, third in his second, 27th in his third; why he found Olympic competition the least enjoyable of his career; how he trained by running nine miles to work and back in Medford, Mass; how before the Brockton Marathon in 1911 he breakfasted on 12 oranges, a bag of pine nuts and a pound of caramels; how to dodge...
...Pleased was the President to hear that New Mexico had ratified the Child Labor Amendment, 27th State to do so. Displeased was he to hear that the Amendment had been defeated in the South Dakota Legislature...
With preparations continuing at a rapid rate for the H-Y-P Conference on Public Affairs to be held in Cambridge on the 26th and 27th of this month, the choice of speakers for the opening luncheon and the main banquet was determined yesterday...
...Dartmouth ski team: the 27th Dartmouth Outing Club winter carnival (slalom, downhill, cross-country racing, jumping) from McGill, Montreal, a team of Swiss students, Maine, New Hampshire, Amherst, Harvard, Yale; on total team points. Carnival Queen, chosen by three doctors from the college infirmary, was Florence Allen of Birmingham, Ala., who had never before seen snow...