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Editor Balmer was sitting like a plump joss last week on the concluding parts of the Alfonso-Alexander conversations, but before reporters he dangled tempting bait. Concluding instalments would take up Alfonso's version of the cause of the de Rivera dictatorship, his own financial situation and the reasons for his decision not to live in England...
...even we rise to the bait as we read that there is an "absence of interest common to Harvard men and the United States military machine...
...London, experts inspected the remains of the shipment of Manchurian partridges but no more poisoned birds were found. Sportsmen advanced a new theory. In Manchuria hunters are in the habit of poisoning the carcasses of partridges with strychnine and leaving them on the ground as bait to catch rare foxes without spoiling the fur. One of these bait birds might have found its way to Lieut. Chevis' dinner table. But what about the HOORAYS of J. Hartigan...
...send them all last fortnight to Captain Charles J. Broadfield of the State Police for instruction. Arresting anglers who lack licenses or who have taken trout too small or too many will be only part of their duty. This year they are to discover and tell what flies or bait the fish are taking, where are the good pools. They will advise fishermen what waters are "posted," which is the nearest short-cut through the woods. They are to try to encourage the use of barbless hooks and the nonuse of landing nets, "to give the fish a fighting chance...
Every year about this time New York's stylista get together and tell the men of the country what they will wear when Spring comes along. Green is to be the dominant shade for 1931 according to the dopesters who apparently feel they no longer need disguise their bait. Or, if one refuses to look for mercenary motives, the new fashion may be considered a gracious compliment to the sons, of Dartmouth who last Spring told the world about their shorts...