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What augurs best for Mayor Walker as a candidate to succeed himself is the almost complete absence of a cohesive and well-directed Opposition. New York City Republicans are at a loss for a suitable nominee, are even ready.to fuse with independent Democrats if they have a man to offer. The only Democrat who stands forth seems to be John Francis ("Red Mike") Hylan, twice Mayor before Walker. Republicans were last week actually, quite seriously considering allegiance to Hylan, whose vote-following is unquestionably larger than the outstanding Republican possibility, short, swart Representative Fiorello H. La Guardia...
...diamond thieves, one of them a woman, and the kidnaped manager of the Crown Diamond mines, get thirsty in an oxcart. Suspense, provided by the problem of how Gilbert is to get both diamonds and woman, gathers smoothly and almost originally, until the star embraces Mary Nolan in the mine office and Ernest Torrence is led off to jail. Best shot: Torrence lulling the suspicions of the mine employes when a steam-alarm goes off as he is robbing the safe...
After all, the Freshman Jubilee is a good deal like life. Weeks spent in discussion of the proper date so that no numeral man will have to break training on the night before the big game are accompanied by weeks of arrangement with butchers and bakers and electricians. Months, almost, of careful thought, a few moments of careless laughter in the dim light of quadrangle and common room and then the sun rises upon janitors picking up waste paper and commenting upon the abraded condition of the parquetry floor...
...other Crimson star T. G. Moore '29 who has been hors de combat thus far this season, is still an unknown quantity in tomorrow's meet. Should he participate in the javelin throw, he is almost certain to get in at least one heave which should better 185 feet, but whether his weak arm would permit more than one such throw is doubtful. V. M. Harding '31, who won this event in the triangular meet with Brown and Holy Cross two weeks ago with a throw of 181 feet, 9 inches is good for at least a second...
...That whole difficulty would disappear at once if it is the Freshmen, not the Sophomores, who are being assigned to the Houses. Freshmen, till they have matriculated, have no rights at all. They will go to the Houses to which they are assigned, and they will accept the assignment almost as readily as they now accept the assignment of rooms in the Freshman Halls...