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...grey, but at 69 George Humble is all set to ship out. Retired from the Navy 20 years ago as chief carpenter's mate, he broke out his old uniform again last week, prepared to work towards another hash mark to add to the swatch of eight that adorn his sleeve already (they represent 32 years' service). Sailor Humble began his career as a blacksmith's apprentice in Ireland, joined the U.S. Navy in 1890, the year he landed in the U.S. He began to hate the Japs back in 1901, when some Jap cops in Yokohama...
...senior class used to go about $2,-000 in the hole every year. Morse found that 1) each class automatically ordered 10,000 folding chairs for Class Day, although 4,000 were never unfolded; 2) tradition dictated that bay trees must adorn Class Day dances, although the only bay trees available, always rented from the same company, had become "mangy" from age, storms and costly trips to & from Cambridge; 3) Japanese lanterns were strung up at an annual cost of $1,000 long after the arrival of daylight saving made them unnecessary. Morse cut Class Day and Commencement chair costs...
...GLAMOR GIRL, Advertisers should be glad;-To adorn each subway ad with a girl like...
...England, and as a result, the shop's reputation in that game is perhaps even greater than in tennis: 163 championship winning racquets have come from the Tennis and Squash Shop, and among the regular customers there have been thirteen national champions. Many of their winning racquets now adorn the walls of the shop--including those of last year's national amateur champion, A. W. Patterson '32, and intercollegiate champion Kim Canavarro...
This is a surprise to art students at Louisiana State University, where classes in fresco painting have been going on for five years. These classes are under the able direction of Conrad Albrizio, whose frescos adorn several public buildings in Louisiana and who has executed two frescos in Louisiana and Alabama post offices on commission from the U. S. Section of Fine Arts...