Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when young Publisher Hearst would hire a special train to get his news crew to the scene of a fire; when publisher & reporters had fabulous fun at Hearst's house in Sausalito; when famed "Annie Laurie" (Winifred Sweet Black Bonfils), first of the expert Hearst tearjerkers, wrote her classic sob stories about "Little Jim," the crippled child of a drunken prostitute, which drew $20,000 from the pockets of sympathetic Examiner readers; and when incorrigible Reporter Eddie Morphy made San Franciscans weep just as loudly over a destitute orphaned Irish family who existed only in his mind...
Brookfield Dumb-Bell lived only in John Taintor Foote's classic story, Dumb-Bell of Brookfield, but last week from Georgia came proof that Author Foote's tale was no fantasy. Out for quail with a friend's three bird dogs were Paul T. Chance, an Augusta lawyer, and his two sons. After a covey rise, some of the single birds settled in a small ravine beside a railroad culvert. When Brilliant Joe, an 8-year-old setter, reached the top of the railroad embankment, he saw that one of his mates, a young pointer...
...unexpected failure of its football team to go through the year undefeated. For Purdue, Big Ten Champions for the past three years, the victory meant an approximate quadruple tie with Illinois, Minnesota and Michigan, at the top of the Conference standing, a good chance to equal a classic Conference record by winning its fourth basketball championship in a row. The deadlock, in the tightest Big Ten basketball season in years, did not last long. Two nights later, Illinois, which had played one more game and won more than the other leaders, held its advantage with a 48to-31 victory over...
TRAVELS IN ARABIA DESERTA, 2 vols.- Charles M. Doughty-Random House ($15). Beautifully produced, unabridged edition of the travel classic, with the 5,000-word introduction by T. E. Lawrence...
This two mile race is another in which a classic struggle will be going on. Here, unfortunately, Harvard is not so well represented. Jaakko Mikkola has had a whole string of crack long distance men in the past, and names like Pen Hallowell, Art Foote and Bob Playfair are still remembered. But this year the only two miler worth much is Henry Marcy, and he has been laid up with illness; although he will be in there tomorrow, he is far from the top of his form and will probably not pick up much better than a fourth place...