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Died. Baroness Nancy Fish Barnum Callius d'Arengian; onetime wife of Phineas Taylor Barnum, famed U. S. showman; in Paris. After Mr. Barnum's death in 1891 she married Demetrius Callius Bey, Greek, and after his death-D'Alexandry d'Arengian, Frenchman...
...have each donned a roomy pair of boots, and now employ all their leisure industriously quaking in those boots for dread of him. He growls, he snarls, he meweth dainty verses, he screams in ferocious farces--but will he bite? And can he withstand the seductive charms of a Barnum, for how can one little, Tiger, however fierce he may be, make a menngerie all by himself? Can a feather go off in a corner and flock alone by itself? But he is a very strong Tiger and very, very fierce, and his claws are sharp, and they make very...
...Honors. When Captain Lindbergh arrives in the U. S., he will find Barnum-scale welcomes wherever he goes-and U. S. railroad executives have offered him free transportation to any point. He will see his picture on U. S. Army recruiting billboards; his name in advertisements* for wrist watches, fountain pens, automobiles, what not. He will discover that the New York Daily News (tabloid) has distributed sepia photographs of him, "ready for framing," to its gum-chewing readers. He will see shopgirls wearing his features on their handbags, his monoplane models on their hats...
...University golfers will play against Yale Monday in the following order: E. S. Stimpson '27, Dwight Barnum '27, Joseph Morrill '28, J. A. Hutchinson '28, E. D. Cole '27, and either J. W. Hutchinson '28 or O. L. Winston '29. One of the last two will probably play in the singles matches and the other in the foursome...
...making the trip are: Joseph Morrill Jr. '28, J. A. Hutchinson Jr. '28, Owon Winston '29, J. A. Hutchinson '29, Dwight Barnum '27, Captain E. S. Stimpson '27, and E. D. Cole '27, manager...