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...nominations for Vice-President are: Dwight Barnum of Boston; Robert Anderson Magowan of Miami Beach, Florida, and Henry Sewall Woodbridge of Brookline...
...Mare has written an exquisite story of a midget. It is not a pleasant story, for pitiful stories are not pleasant stories. And the "Memoirs of a Midget" is very and sincerely pitiful. No one has written the life of Zip the "What Is It" to whom Barnum gave fame. Dickens gave a name, and the public gave the vital interest of its perpetual indecorum. But now that Zip is dead and the fellowship of freaks takes on the vestments of usual mourning the need of such a memoir becomes less remote. Zip should be perpetuated. For in a time...
...mature persons Zip has always been lacking in appeal. His sharply domed cranium, monkey-fur suit, and ingrowing personality, seem all too slight an excuse for the sizable cheques which he has drawn for many years from the Barnum & Bailey and Ringling Brothers circus...
Died. Mme. Krao Farini, 49, famed "Siamese Missing Link, for 30 years a strange hairy freak in the employ of numerous circuses; in Manhattan, of asthma and influenza, while employed by the combined Barnum & Bailey and Ringling Brothers circuses...
Four men who received letters either last year or the year before will be on the team again this year. These are E. S. Stimpson '27, the Captain who is expected to be one of the stars of the coming season. Dwight Barnum '27, and C. E. Bohlen '27, who were on last year's team, and A. R. Parker Jr. ocC., who won his letter the year before...