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Proctor has worked on practically all of the ski trails in New Hampshire and has built a great many himself. Some of those he has built are the Wild Cat at Pinkham Notch and all other trails in the Pinkham Notch district, the Tuckerman Ravine Trail, the Bear Mountain run at Bartiett, the Chocerua run, and the Tuft trail at Francenia...
...York Times. Sending forth three crack correspondents, Turner Cat- ledge to the South, Russell B. Porter to the Midwest, and James A. Hagerty to New England, the New York Times gave their reports in a series of articles which virtually conceded all New England to the Republicans, all the South, along with Indiana, Iowa and Kansas to Roosevelt. Ohio and Pennsylvania left the Times men in a quandary...
...dummy board, offended attending chess experts who thought Alekhine's daring an open slight on the Dutchman's talents. Disconcerted by their caustic mumblings. Dr. Alekhine won a three-day respite from the Dutch doctor. When he returned to play, neither his rest nor his mascot cat, which sniffed the board before each game, could stave off Dr. Euwe's determined efforts. In the 25th game, Alekhine sacrificed two pawns in the opening, hoped to snare his opponent's queen. Watchful Dr. Euwe withdrew the piece from danger, forced Alekhine to resign, went into the lead...
Meantime socialite Washington got the idea that Joe Davies was bursting with diplomatic aspirations. Although the usual way to nail a foreign job is to play "fat cat" to the Administration in power at home, Joe Davies recently entertained French Ambassador André de Laboulaye and Italian Ambassador Augusto Rosso with their respective staffs at lavish stag dinners in Washington's Shoreham Hotel. Joe Davies' best bet seems to be the U. S. Embassy in Paris, for Jesse Straus, present U. S. Ambassador to France, is supposed to be ready to retire because of poor health. Some opposition...
...upon the delight of miniatures, of 100 doll-house bric-a-brac, latent in the "Travels", and given them a separate existence, the satire being discarded. Disney has come a long way from the days when visual puns were the heart of an animated cartoon. You remember: Felix the Cat used to have trouble entering fourth-story windows, only to sprout columns of huge question marks out of his head and use them as the necessary ladder. Insead of this we now have visual metaphors. The break of day, for example, is represented by the somber heavens' splitting along...