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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agents. Taking his fishing rod, he went off for the day with the chief of police of his home town while Cincinnati townsfolk went wild. For the first time since 1919 there was talk of a National League pennant for the Reds (in third place and only four games behind the League-leading Giants). The club front office was stampeded for tickets. A sportswriter suggested that a statue of Vander Meer replace that of onetime U. S. President James A. Garfield in Garfield Square. In special session at Columbus, the Ohio Senate passed a resolution in "tribute to the newly...
...Flares, five-year-old son of famed Gallant Fox (1930 Kentucky Derby winner), owned by U. S. Banker William Woodward: the Ascot Gold Cup, No. i race of the world's richest and most fashionable meeting of thoroughbreds; coming from behind at the two-mile mark and defeating Lord Glanely's Buckleigh by a nose after a breathless zigzag spurt in the stretch; at Ascot Heath, an hour from London. A 100-to-7 shot, Flares avenged the defeat of his full brother Omaha, who lost by a nose two years ago. Only one other U. S.-bred...
...reward for 50 weeks of drudgery as a Manhattan stenographer. They quarrel, make up, and fall in love. The incidents of their romance are pathetically meagre-dances to the music of the camp band, a brief mutual inspection of the moon, a single excursion by canoe to Eagle Rock. Behind these incidents, imprinted with the devastating clarity of a picture-post card, is an animated bird's-eye view of thousands of U. S. summer days at thousands of U. S. Kamp Kare-Frees -the crude japeries of the camp's recreational director, the oily friendliness...
These young men of Harvard are but a tiny fraction of the 148,000 others who are graduating from the colleges and universities of America this month. They leave behind them tomorrow a few names already famous, many more destined to become famous in the future, some who will be failures, a sprinkling of ditch-diggers-to-be. In return for four years here they have left behind several thousand dollars at Lehman Hall, a few really grand moments which the newspapers, the public, and their fellows have sometimes made grander, sometimes ignored. And now, Harvard--a hundred assorted buildings...
They are taking more than they leave behind. The memories of raw November football weekends, the Charles at dawn, Widener and Memorial Church at eve with melodic voices, Mallinckrodt at high noon, Radcliffe and Wellesley and Smith in their most festive moments. A visit to the Dean, lunch with a tutor, the words of a great man speaking brilliantly and earnestly, the tolling of a thousand bells, a broken window and a flooded bathroom, a Goodman rhapsody and a Schubert symphony. Things they wrote home about--marks, athletics, money, and evasions. And things they didn't---applause that pleaded...