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...Sweden, where remarkably pure steel is made, the Swedish Steel & Iron Trust took form, a 127,000,000 kroner ($34,000,000) organization. No Swedish steel concern will henceforth compete with a compatriot organizer...
...keep track of the scoring, but these finally agreed that Abe Mitchell (who later confessed that he had paid no attention to the newfangled arrangements but just "played for the pin" as usual) had amassed 172 points and was the winner. C. H. Corless, Abe's English compatriot, was second with 161 points. Rugger Bill Melhorn of Chicago was third with 160 points. Other scores: Walter Hagen 148 points, Archie Compston 134, Joe Kirkwood 128. "Par" in points was 228. Comparison of the medal (stroke) scores shed but little light on the relative merits of "guid auld" and "scientific...
...Caillaux has not the facility with la langue anglaise of his compatriot, M. Briand, who two weeks ago paid so amiable a visit to England concerning the proposed security pact with Germany. But the keenwitted French master of finance doubtless counts himself fully equal to the problem of dealing with Mr. Churchill on the question of France's debt to England...
...Paderewski retold the story delightfully with one or two minor variations, such as the Englishman taking his biscuits, his port wine and his pipes. He said he was going to follow his compatriot and discuss the Polish question- but without including the elephant...
Although the "Ride of Paul Revere" has received more attention than that of his compatriot, it is merely because William Dawes, Jr., took a different route in warning the colonists on the same night; he galloped through what is now Roxbury, Brookline, and Cambridge to Concord, Captain Hunneman, dressed in the clothes of a miller, will start from North Square, Boston, at 9.15 o'clock Monday morning, will pass along Washington street, over the old "Boston Neck" and out to Roxbury. From there he will go through Brookline Village, to Harvard street, and straight past the Stadium to the Charles...