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...course he had to have his comeuppance. His overextended business schemes went bust. He had stepped on his friends and walked out on his girls too often. Even stodgy Herbert and Florrie had lived more fully and had more to live for, even if their son was Jimmy's. But Jimmy stayed in character to the end. When he joined the army as a private at the start of World War II, he knew it would not be long before he was made a major. "Major?" He asked the question and corrected himself: "Brigadier...
...blinding snow storm, Grey Eagle and a crew of workmen dug up Sitting Bull's bones, hurried them across the state line in a truck, reburied them, covered the grave with 20 tons of cement, and stationed an armed guard near by. Mobridge prepared to place a bust of Sitting Bull by Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski over the new grave. Grey Eagle went contentedly back to his sod hut amid an outraged clamor from North Dakota...
Mary Williamson was only a Yorkshire millhand until Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, the "Father of Physical Culture," put a tape around her torso (bust 38½, hips 39). After that, life speeded up for Mary. First, in a nationwide contest, Macfadden crowned her "Great Britain's Perfect Woman"; then he gave her the star turn in his physicultural demonstrations-that of springing nightly off a high table and landing "with both feet together on his breadbasket."* Between springs he poured into her astonished ear the truth about the breadbasket-how the Macfadden stomach revolted against breakfasts, steaks and alcohol...
...Radcliffe girl, typically enough, is resisting the trend and distorting the graph. Their waist-lines are getting higher, their waists are getting smaller with an assist from the cinch belt. Curves along the hips and bust are re-accentuated, re-exaggerated, and re-inflated...
Ridlon Kiphart--Freshman Football; Freshman Baseball; Jubilee Committee; Kirkland House Committee; House Beer Bust Committee, Chairman; House Dance Committee; Crimson Key, House Representative; All-College Weekend Coordinating Committee, House Ticket Chairman; Undergraduate Schools Committee; Undergraduate Advising Committee, House Chairman; P. B. H. Book and Clothing Drive; House Play; House Baseball, Crew, Squash; University and Harvard Club Scholarships...