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...Congress dead? If so, 'tis the most antic corpse...
Princeton students, and especially soccer players, of a decade ago remember Charley Woodbridge well. They remember him carrying trays in Commons as he worked his way through. They remember his antic agility on the soccer field, where he more than held his own in the forward line against much heavier men. He had learned the game from the English at school in China, where he was born in 1901 in a family which counts 14 generations of ministers, back to 1493. They remember that, without being a "greasy-grind," Charley Woodbridge was always near the head of his class...
Hero of this Antarctic antic was Chief Airplane Pilot Harold June. With two others he took off in the expedition's big Curtiss Condor, equipped with ski landing-gear, for a reconnaissance flight. In the take-off the wind whipped the skis back until they hung vertically from beneath the plane. Someone had forgotten to attach restraining wires from the toes of the skis to the wing struts. Pilot June was told by radio from the Jacob Ruppert what was wrong. Co-Pilot B. M. Bowlin crawled out on the wing, lost his cap and a glove...
...most famed funnymen. Charley Chase's value, like that of most cinema comedians, is his appearance. He is a pale, clerical, common place individual whose manners should match his unobtrusive looks. Instead, he is equipped with preposterous permanent jitters. He produces laughter founded largely upon disapproval. His favorite antic is grinning self-assurance after some display of crass social ignorance...
...lose, a squabble with pontifical Eugene Meyer over a comic strip is precisely the sort of antic that delights publicity-wise "Cissy" Patterson. Her three-year career as editor, during which the Herald has gained 23,000 circulation, has been marked by many another conspicuous exploit. First thing after taking office she promoted and front-paged a quarrel with Alice Roosevelt Longworth, managing to involve also Ruth Hanna McCormick and Idaho's Senator Borah. She published an interview with the Haitian Minister purporting to show that a fort, once captured by General Smedley Butler, did not exist. General Butler...