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...Cambridge. In those days there was no stadium, there was the flying "V", and Dartmouth provided opposition which, according to the Boston Globe "might possibly be able to cope with Boston Latin School." A half a century of rivalry has seen a complete reversal of conditions, it has beheld the development of football from a sport to a major business, it has bound two institutions with the thread of tradition, of mutual respect...
...disowned by Philip Baldwin of Medford, Mass., radio control man for National Broadcasting Co.'s Station WEEI. Radioman Baldwin, reported Colyumist MacKinnon, bought two white rats, one of which soon disappeared from its box in the Baldwin garage. It had been missing ten days when Mr. Baldwin suddenly beheld it perched impudently on a brake drum of his automobile. He grabbed, missed. The rat darted out of sight into the car's internals, Mr. Baldwin knew not where...
Northern Californians rubbed their eyes last week as Lake Tahoe turned orange. In Lassen National Park motorists cursed their overheated engines. Visitors to American River Canyon looked aloft, beheld a vast mottled cloud moving northwest. Natives of the Sierra Nevada foothills, remembering similar phenomena in 1926, 1919 and 1913, shrugged their shoulders and went back to work. They knew that these butterflies live off wild lilacs and other wild plants, do not harm domestic crops...
...since the principles he stands for are practically the same code of the principles the W. C. T. U. adopted when present-day grey-haired mothers were children in short dresses." Focus. Last week Wet & Dry eyes turned to Congress, ultimate focus of their next big fight. There they beheld frothy turmoil over legalizing beer, heard noisy clamor for immediate Repeal. Beneath surface politics, however, was the solid fact that no serious move to effect a Change would or could be undertaken until after the People speak...
Wall Street last week beheld an unusual sight-Mrs. Vincent Astor, slim and chic, standing on the running board of a large yellow automobile shaking a coin box, begging contributions...