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...again at sight of a photographer's tripod and plate-box. In many cases the cameraman, boldly marked with the badge of his trade, is barred at gates where the newsman, with camera concealed, may saunter in. As Jack Price says: "Nowadays a reporter can still carry his cane and have a camera tucked in his pocket." The adventures of news photographers can be fully as thrilling as those of newshawks. Ingenuity comes quite as much into play. Jack Price thinks the most ingenious stunt he ever saw was ''Crazy Johnny" O'Brien...
...much-heralded "Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti" along with ten other watercolors of the "Dreyfus Cane" by Ben Shahu have arrived at the galleries of the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art and will remain on display until October...
...proper kind of inkwell, the scientific height and slope for a desk, a dustless chalk, a shineless blackboard, hygienic methods of ventilation-these school details and many another have been well thought out. But punishment is still crude, unscientific, oldfashioned. You cane one child, thwack another, smack a third. Why should chastisement not be up-to-date, simple, exact? So ran the musings of a smart Australian pedagog. Last week the startled Ministry of Education in Sydney received, and began to ponder, a strange result of his thoughts: a contraption of many wheels, dials, weights, levers, by which a cane...
Western Canada was shocked when Lawyer Machray, enfeebled by long illness, arose in Winnipeg's Provincial Police Court, leaning heavily on his cane, to be charged with theft. His peculations from University funds were now estimated at $901,175. In addition he was charged with stealing $60,000 from Heber Archibald, his former law partner. (The firm had gone bankrupt.) Begging a summary trial, Lawyer Machray pleaded guilty. Magistrate R. M. Noble, recalling huskily that for 25 years he had been a friend of the accused, passed sentence: seven years in the penitentiary...
Next afternoon at 3 p.m. while Fascists yelled their war cries in front of the Reichstag, Grandmother Zetkin was carried in the back door on a stretcher, lifted to her feet. Leaning on a heavy cane, she advanced, flanked on either side by a big-hipped Amazonian Red. Pain and fatigue made perspiration pour down the sunken cheeks of Clara Zetkin but her old eyes flashed. "I shall do my duty in strict accordance with the rules of antiquated parliamentarianism," she gasped, "because it is my duty to the German proletariat...