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...face-down in Long Island Sound off a beach at Larchmont, N. Y. was Mrs. Ada Alden, 79, poet, widow of Editor Henry Mills Alden of Harper's mother-in-law of the late Poet Joyce Kilmer, who dedicated "Trees" to her. Pulled ashore, revived in ten minutes, chipper Mrs. Alden wrote a 35-line poem about her experience, promised to keep up her daily swims...
...Interior Charles West; Mr. Hopkins and his crack statistician, Corrington Gill; Frank Walker, Rex Tugwell, Budget Director Daniel Bell. Morning, afternoon & evening pencils scratched, words flew across the big library table in Hyde Park House. When the visitors set out for Washington late at night Mr. Hopkins looked chipper, Mr. Ickes glum...
...match reached the 31st hole, Minneapolis' Berg had suddenly won two holes in succession, halved another and dropped a 15-ft. putt on the 34th green for a par 4. Now, if Philadelphia's Vare missed a tricky six-footer, the match would stay alive and chipper little Patty Berg would have an excellent chance to win. Her small, earnest oval face set in serious lines, Mrs. Vare leaned over her ball, tapped it with her putter. When it dropped into the cup, she smiled, walked over to shake hands...
...week crossed Eighth Avenue, entered Madison Square Garden, clambered into the ring and nodded morosely to the crowd. Into the ring immediately behind him climbed the two muscular lightweights whose fight the crowd had paid to see: scarred Sammy Fuller of Boston, perennial stumbling block for lightweight contenders, and chipper young Lou Ambers who had nothing but a purse to gain by winning, stood to lose a chance at Barney Ross's title in a bout this summer...
...Chipper Japanese officers said when they came ashore: "Our naval exercises are part of a program which necessarily places control of the approaches of North China with the Japanese fleet." When timid Chinese newsorgans murmured that Japan's war games were interfering with Chinese shipping, the Japanese commander snorted "Ridiculous...