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...Bot Miss Corey thinks we aren't sports--all that hesitancy about volunteering for company officers. Sissies!--and think of the fun Company B had Wednesday afternoon at drill. For a while there was a slight question as to just where they would end up-and-how!--wasn't there, Miss McKenzie...
...overseas hats. Custom says "Square that hat." Bot they'd look cute squared...
...Just when colleges are scraping the bot tom of the private financial barrel, the Government will undertake a limited experiment in publicly financed higher education. Next autumn there may be another test for new 17-year-olds...
With stock yields near a record high, bond yields are scraping an all-time bot tom. Treasury bonds-haven of many a former stockmarket dollar-yield less than 2% compared with 3.6% in 1929, a 5% peak after World War I. Top-flight industrial liens yield only 2.3%, half the 1929 rate. Biggest mystery in Wall Street is why investors will grab the bond of a Government-harassed utility paying $30 on a $1,000 investment, but close tight their checkbooks on Chrysler common, which returns $60 a year on exactly the same outlay...
...Farmer "Bot" Smith's hilltop field at Fort Fairfield, Aroostook County, Maine, with a crowd of 4.000 standing around in the rain to watch, long-armed Republican Governor Lewis O. Barrows of Maine peeled off his coat to engage short-armed Democratic Governor Barzilla W. Clark of Idaho in a five-minute contest at picking potatoes-a prime product of both their States. Governor Clark pitched his spuds forward into his basket; Governor Barrows scrabbled backwards into a basket between his long, straddled legs (see cut). The winner: Maine's Barrows, 201 lbs. to 197 lbs. He apologized...