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...bottle-nosed whale that was found stranded with its calf off Gloucester last Friday is now being prepared for the University's zoological museum under the direction of Professor Thomas Harbour '06, associate curator of Reptiles and Amphibians at the University Museum of Comparative Zoology. As soon as the skeleton is cleaned it will be transported to Cambridge where the erecting will be done. It is a hyperoodon 23 feet long, a very rare species found usually in much colder regions...
...Here then is the greatest primitive spectacle of the struggle of man against beast that the laws of our land permit. " Bronk " riding, steer bulldogging (diving from horseback to the horns of a wild steer and throwing it by the application of human leverage to the sweeping horns); calf roping; trick and fancy riding for both sexes; steer riding; relay race; and cowgirls' bronk riding are featured. There is certainly nothing on the stage; little in the movies or the prize ring; little in football or polo that can compare with this program in display of sheer force...
English blue noses are in the air. The nasal elevation is the result of 'certain press photographs of women tennis players in action. The pictures illustrate with unconscious frankness the calf and knee as well as the racket and wrist combining in the fine gesture of the forehand drive...
Georgia's fatted calf is dead. They killed it for Bobby Jones. By virtue of one startling shot from the deep grass on the 18th hole at Inwood, Jones won, in addition to the open golf championship, one of the greatest " feasts of honor" ever heaped on a Georgia table and a resolution of appreciation from the Georgia legislature. Only was there an echo from Alaska missing. Possibly the sight of Hurricane Gulch, Alaska, persuaded Mr. Harding that bunkers are trivial affairs after all. "But," protest the politicians, " he should respect the golfing voters. There are only...
...people read Moon Calf and Eric Dorn because they like to hear their own opinions What can one say of Waverly? What devastating paradox can one derive from Peregrine Pickle? But turn to Many Marriages and its kind and by comparison criticism flows as voluminously, noisily, instinctively as Niagara. When other vanities pass, there still remains one's own invincible opinion...