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...memorial will be placed in front of the Soldiers. Field Locker Building between the two entrance to the building, and will be of stone, approximately 12 feet by 5 at the base and eight feet high with three stone steps leading up to it. Three bronze bas-relief tablets by R. T. McKenzie will be set in the stone. The largest and central panel will be of Haughton in football toga crouching with one knee on the ground in a pose characteristic of the famous mentor. The two flanking tablets will represent scrimmages. On the base, directly underneath the bas...
...National Museum at Atheus contains an archaic bas-relief taken from the walls of Themistocles showing what we would call the face-off of a game of field hockey. The opposing centers are about to put in play a ball the size of a baseball; two forwards on each team are prepared to receive it. The men carry sticks similar to those now in use, though they are shorter as to handle and end in a crock rather than in a flat arm. The whole scene greatly resembles the aspect of the modern game in every way. Of course...
...that latecomers can find a softly glowing path to their seats in a darkened theatre. But large further sums were spent on such bric-a- brackery, such articles of virtu, as 37 bronze-labeled stones from foreign countries in the "Hall of Nations." This hall also contains a bronze bas-relief of Thomas A. Edison, who presented the first practical cinema reel (1894), scenes of prize fights, fencing matches, dances and vaudeville skits. Inventor Edison was so intent on maintaining the profitable novelty of his pictures in the U. S. that he neglected to patent his process abroad. The side...
Married. Boris Asian Finaly, son of Horace Finaly, director of the Banque de Paris and Pays-Bas; to Velma Faye Zeigler, of Johnstown, Pa.; in Paris...
...donate to the Army of Salvation, it must be hoped that this grand old man and grand old horse will stir an occasional tear. One need not wait until Freddie fails, to weep o'er his prostrate white form in the Sterne mannerly one may do it now. A bas the motor car. Freddie is eternal...