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...threw at the end of that game made the score Harvard 19, Army 20. His drop kick tied the score. Michigan's Fielding Yost, onetime coach of Benny Friedman, called Wood that year the greatest passer he had ever seen. Since then Wood has often 'justified the compliment. A mediocre runner, at times an uninspired field-general, Harvard's captain has taken longer than it took Booth to achieve the status of a No. i college football hero. But now his fame and popularity are such that even the South Boston "townies," whose custom it has long...
...same time Ambassador Edge delivered the White House invitation. Swart little Premier Laval graciously accepted the invitation and the inkstands, remarking facetiously: "We are infinitely touched by your gesture. . . . Your compatriots who, we are told, use only fountain pens, will interpret this as a good-natured compliment to the tenacious habits of our ancient civilization." Arrangements were made for the Premier to sail on S. S. lie de France with Ambassador Edge. At first he said he would not take his daughter Jose, 20, with him. But after she saw her name mentioned in the newspapers as a possible member...
...FLESH AND BLOOD-George Sylvester Viereck-Liveright ($3). Before the U. S. entered the War George Sylvester Viereck laid the foundations for his subsequent unpopularity by editing the pro-German Fatherland. In this book he quotes the characteristic compliment bestowed on him by the late Col. Henry Watterson's Louisville Courier- Journal: "A venom-bloated toad of treason." But politics and patriotism have never been Author Viereck's whole concern. In this "lyric autobiography," heavily humorless, egregiously egotistic, he tells everything anybody could possibly want to know about George Sylvester Viereck's life and loves. The book...
...Noble and friendly nations frame the shores of the Mediterranean," he began, palpably aiming a compliment at Italy. "One of them partook of our recent terrible trials [the World War] and fought valorously and gloriously at our side for the defense and the triumph of a great cause. In the course of that struggle our community of cultural interests and sentiment affirmed itself in so striking a fashion that I am convinced the memory of it will always remain living and active in our hearts...
Your broadcast March 20-superb. Courtroom audioscenes perfect. Introduction of military in ambush well done . . . but can it be you had to borrow Collier Hour Girl for ambush play? . . . Present hour too late. . . . Great compliment to Columbia-your selecting them...