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...week before the Yale meet next Saturday, an almost exclusively Freshman Jayvee swimming team whipped St. George's School 49 to 17. Highlight of the afternoon was Chuck Holzier's time of one minute, seven and two-tenths seconds in the 100 yard breast stroke, a Freshman record breaker for that event...
...Right (alas, alas) is Reader Lambert, onetime collaborator with ghost-breaker Harry Price (The Haunting of Cashen's Gap). To a Rip Van Winklish TIME reporter in London: wake...
...Minnow, little Minnow, don't cry!" murmured Alexander Reither, whose "cream-colored piqué vest . . . revealed . . . the odd attractiveness that. . . made him a notorious breaker of hearts." "Loneliness," he assured Minnow, "is something you need not be afraid of! Not with your figure!" Minnow pocketed faithless Lover Reither's generous parting check, and burst into tears. "Oh, Alexander. . . .Oh, my darling, my Only. . . . Life is like a railway platform.... Au revoir, my dear...
...smelt-like fish. Unique among marine life, they ride the surf onto sandy beaches, there to spawn and quickly go away again. The female dances on her tail, drilling a hole into the sand for her eggs, while the male flops wildly about her. The next full breaker covers the roe with sand, washes the grunion back...
...Maker & Breaker. Critic Jackson, San Francisco Chronicle book reviewer, has been a West Coast literary authority for 20 years. Now 50, he was born in New Jersey, studied at Lafayette, was a lieutenant in World War I. He got into advertising in California after the war, was editor of Sunset Magazine for eight years. In 1924 he began a weekly half- hour broadcast on books over San Francisco's station KGO which was steadily popular until he quit...