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Julian Roosevelt will stroke the 'fifties in their first outing of the year. Coach Bert Haines, who knows no more of his opponents than what he has been able to garner from a "couple of looks at them practicing," was unwilling to hazard a guess at the results yesterday...
...excitedly reported that the invading mouse army was only 25 miles from the city. This turned out to be what Australians call a "furphy" (phony), but Melbournians were still scared. Victoria's government urged Mallee farmers to an all-out campaign with cyanogen and strychnine. At Ouyen, Mrs. Bert Holland planned a more direct appeal through prayer. An hour before church time she went to her wardrobe to get her Sunday clothes. Mrs. Holland found that the mice of Mallee had eaten them...
...light oarsmen deserve better treatment for several reasons. They have occupied an official place in Harvard's athletic roster since the early twenties. In Bert Haines they have one of the finest and most colorful of crew coaches. Last season they rowed alternately 150 and Junior Varsity and went through the season undefeated in both classes...
...been claimed by Dave Clark, a strong number five, and Henry Erhard who fulfills particularly well one of the cardinal functions of a good bow man, namely to bring the weight average down. His weight: 137. Despite this amazing individual achievement, the boat as a whole is too heavy. Bert calls them his "fat fifties," and is anxiously plying them with Ry-Krisp...
Back a number of years two successful songwriters known as Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, propelled by the conviction that the typical popular song could be classified as somewhere between ridiculous and ghastly, put out a book of songs burlesquing the lyric and melodic conventions of Tin Pan Alley. This collection included such masterpieces of lyric vacuity as the following lines...