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...latest game, played between Paul Perkins' stalwarts and Bob Bryan's intrepids, finished with the latter team on top, 7 to 6. In these contests newcomers Henry Newman, Ray Eder, Hanley Stromberg, and Ben Burr looked fairly good. The squads have been divided up evenly and everyone was given a chance to rush his opponent around...
...issue is weakest in its poetry. Gray Burr's "Letter to Dead Soldiers" is perhaps the best for its occasional originality of imagery; even its obscurity appears as mock-virtue beside the apparent triteness of most other poems. Ormand deKay's "Floor Show Fantastico" would succeed as a piece of light and amusing by-play if its structure were not completely destroyed by two unnecessary lines, while John Crockett comes no closer to reality in his work on the war than he did when limited to suburban scenes...
Then House Republican Leader Joe Martin put the most painful burr of all under the harness. All Congressmen, including Muley Doughton, want to get away for a two-week Easter recess. Martin announced flatly that he would prevent the recess unless the House voted a pay-as-you-go compromise first. Old Muley Doughton grew red-faced and smoking hot, but he still balked...
...Kubs & Kids are rival teams recruited from St. Pete's Three-Quarter-Century Club. For 14 winters these septuagenarians have played a 25-game series for the championship of the "Sandspur League" (named after a prickly Florida burr). They play under somewhat different rules from the Yankees and Cardinals. They use a softball and a softball diamond, play six innings instead of nine, and errors, too numerous to count, are never counted. But no big leaguers were ever more eager to make a home run or a snappy double play. They make plenty of both. Average number of runs...
...list of men receiving commissions is as follows: John R. Abbott, Jr.; Oliver F. Ames; William O. Apthorp; Carleton Burr; Henry M. Campbell; Gerard H. Coster; Jack H. James; William H. Latimer, Jr.; Allan L. Levine; Thomas J. L. Redmond; Rufus F. Walker; William Woodward, Jr.; William C. Wright...