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...Reporter Kenneth Campbell's pocket Pastor Straton noted a copy of Bernarr Macfadden's tabloid Graphic, and asked to see it. The reporter described: "The family gathered around the bed to inspect it. At the first glance Dr. Straton sat bolt upright and Mrs. Straton who was holding the newspaper emitted sorrowful clucks. The-pastor's noseglasses slipped from his nose and he fumbled for them among the covers, retrieved them and put them in place. His eyes narrowed with anger as he looked at the picture...
...field of college humor. With only one rival, the Columbia "Spectator", the wits from Mt. Auburn Street could boast a circulation and a reputation which was without equal. Then into the Cambridge jester's existence of placid dignity and lonely rule was suddenly hurled a disturbing, challenging bolt in the form of the first Princeton "Tiger...
Notably absent from play were Miss Joyce Wethered, champion 1922, 1924, 1925, and Miss Cecil Leitch, champion 1914, 1920, 1921, 1926. Miss Leitch, however, marched with the "brolly" brigade, carrying her shelter in her left hand. Down from the Irish skies shot a bolt of Irish lightning, ran down the spines of Miss Leitch's umbrella, knocked her flat on the grass, put her arm out of golfing commission for a fortnight...
...Backer Charles Levine, patriotically christened the Wright-Bellanca monoplane Columbia, (TIME, May 2) with a tepid bottle of ginger ale. Afterwards, laughing, she climbed into the Columbia with her friend Grace Jonas, Superintendent John Carisi and Pilot Clarence D. Chamberlin for a ride. As the plane took off, a bolt was sheared in the shock absorbers, crippling the landing dolly, meaning disaster 99 out of a 100 cases...
...however the Vagabond cannot youth, told of an employee in one of Mr. Ford's automobile factories who on his death-bed was asked to give his idea of paradise. It had been this worthy man's occupation to give the second from the last turn to the last bolt on the chasis as they moved past him, his fellow worker standing beside him putting the finishing touch to the product. Now as he lay dying he could think of but one supreme desire, but one thing which to him to approach the unknowable paradise. His answer was short...