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...Henry Louis Mencken was speaking, nor Oswald Garrison Villard, but their local counterpart in San Francisco?Editor Edward Morphy of San Francisco's old conservative weekly Argonaut. Said he: "The Argonaut is opposed to blah and sobsister stuff. Blah seems to be the present standard of American newspapers." Also is the Argonaut opposed to Prohibition, reformers, the Klan, Radicals. It is for Capital Punishment; has small patience with labor unions; delights in baiting the bustle and flamboyance of Los Angeles...
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...statement has "abandant all other athletic interests in order to urge the adoption of new sports, such as, pelota, kif-kif and the pengo. (Especially the latter.)" He possesses the original manuscript of Bishop Heber's famed hymn, "From Greenland's Icy Mountains." Other books: Argonaut and Juggernaut, Who Killed Cock Robin?, Discursions on Travel, Art and Life, Be fore the Bombardment...
...eight-oared crew was to be selected to represent the U. S. at the Olympic Games. Canada had already picked the Argonaut Rowing Club of Toronto. The U. S. problem was to find out whether undefeated California or undefeated Yale could be defeated. They met on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia to decide. California took the lead at the start. It was a small lead-one-half a length-sometimes it grew to three-quarters of a length, but never did anybody see any open water between the shells of California and Yale. They were going along at a high...
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