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...with the grey eyes, could give her Unity. This book is the elegant elaboration of a somewhat frayed psychological formula. It fails to convince because the author attempts to show how a human doll works by manufacturing instead of analyzing one. It does not fail to interest because Mr. Beresford is a capable craftsman...
Died. Andrew S. Anderson, 54, Democratic nominee for Governor of South Dakota, near Beresford, S. D., gored to death by an enraged bull on his farm...
Rowing. Undistracted by the tumult around them, never daunted by the sights they saw, eight much-lauded Yale oarsmen rowed Toronto University (Canada), Italy, Great Britain "out of sight" on the Seine, became world's champions. Jack Beresford, Jr., of England, Henley single sculls champion, swatted past W. Garrett Gilmore of Philadelphia to the world's singles title (amateur) and the Philadelphia Gold Challenge Cup, emblematic of that honor. Switzerland took the four-oared race with coxswain; Holland the pair-oared without coxswain; Great Britain the four-oared without coxswain...
...Henley-on-Thames, England, J. Beresford, Jr., slid his slender shell under the bridge, rested on his sculls in comfort, reflected joyfully that, as in 1920, he had won the Diamond Sculls. In 1922, Beresford was nosed out by Walter M. Hoover of Duluth. Last year, he did not reach the final heat. This year, the man laboring after him was K. N. Craig, of Pembroke College, Cambridge. In the eight's final for the Grand Challenge Cup, six feet separated the victorious bow of the Leander shell from a boatful of "Tabbies" (Jesus College, Cambridge). On the stroke...
...William Randolph Hearst: 'In the Marie Antoinette room of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, London, a dinner was given in my honor by two of my husband's editors. Those present included: Arnold Bennet, A S. M. Hutchinson, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Rebecca West, W L George, J. D. Beresford, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Charles G. and Kathleen Norris...