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Samoans catch flying fish with flaming torches. Eskimos shoot salmon with bows and arrows. Chinese catch whiting with tame cormorants. The Hairy Ainus of Japan catch salmon with grizzly bears. Finns catch turbot with horses. Unlike cormorants and bears, Finnish horses do not actually catch the fish, nor are they...
Three days' sailing away, lapping their grey noses in the yellow river off Shanghai's Bund, lay the Asiatic fleet's fighting strength. There, under Admiral Montgomery Meigs Taylor, were the cruiser Houston, ten destroyers and the yacht Isabel. The Navy's starry ensign also fluttered...
HIGH HATS AND Low Bows-Ellery Walter-Putnam ($3).*
Ellery Walter, young (25), one-legged and cheerful, attended the University of Washington, then set out to see the world. Part of his travels he has told about in The World on One Leg. In High Hats and Low Bows he recites with cheerful candor the high spots of a...
Now the Sage bows and makes his exit. The trumpeters tremble as they blow farewell. Heels click as attention is called. A toast! Bottoms up! "Aye, he's off for Manchuria." Other scores: Fordham 13 Bucknell 0 Southern Methodist 14 Navy 6 Notre Dame 14 Southern Cal. 13 B. C...