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Briefly, the Chairman of the U. S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee took the stand which President Hoover tried to take with former Premier Pierre Laval of France (TIME, Nov. 2 et seq.). namely that the U. S. should bargain with Europe, offering cancellation in return for all-around reduction of armaments and numerous other concessions for the general good of the world. M. Laval soon showed Mr. Hoover how unwilling Europe is to make any such bargain, preferring that the U. S. simply cancel. Cried Senator Borah...
Georgetown has only two regulars from last year's team in the lineup, Captain Evers, who plays center field, and King, an all-around athlete who plays right field. Evers is the son of one of the scouts of the Boston Braves...
President Hoover, said Painter Philip Alexius Laszlo de Lombos, seemed to be "an all-around man"; Mrs. Hoover he "like enormously" and praised for being "a wonderful mistress of the White House." Nor were these the only compliments which Painter de Laszlo last week paid Mr. & Mrs. Hoover. He had just hurried to finish their portraits?a three quarter length study of the President, a smaller sketch, done as a surprise for her husband, of Mrs. Hoover?so that he would be able to get them into his loan exhibition of portraits, admission proceeds of which were for the Emergency...
...Manhattan trackmeet, Barney Berlinger once took off so heavily for a pole-vault that he crashed through the end-board of the runway. Pole-vaulting is not his specialty any more than weight-throwing, wrestling, boxing, baseball. Considered one of the best all-around track athletes in the U. S., he won the decathlon for the third time in a row at the Pennsylvania Relay Carnival last spring, took more points than any other contestant at the Intercollegiate Indoor Track Championships. Later, he was the leading member of a U. S. track team which toured South Africa. Voters...
...from the Crimson Independents, a Graduate Schools quintet, 28 to 17, from Middlebury, 41 to 19, from Providence, 41 to 28, and from St. Michael's, 52 to 22. The leader of the Dartmouth quintet is McCall, star backfield man of this year's football eleven. He is an all-around player, filling either the guard or forward positions...