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Perhaps the fact that I resent the phrase proves your adjective to have been well chosen; but even so, the point is somewhat blunted by your devoting most of two columns to three of Wooster's illustrious sons. I was privileged to know them all; Dr. Elias Compson, "77, Dean ("pink-slips"), as little as possible; "Prep" Arthur H. in the vague background; Karl, '07, as Captain and left end of the team on which I played an intermittent right end. Largely due to Karl, that team was not scored upon until its final game, when a soggy Columbus field...
Army: Two battalions (900 men) of the 15th Infantry, commanded by Brigadier General Joseph Compson Castner, are detailed at Tientsin to keep open the Peking-Tientsin railway...
Fenway--"Braveheart", with Rod La Rocque, and "Counsel for the Defense", with Betty Compson...
...picture gallops along at a good gait. Excitement and conviction. Then it suddenly tires out and ends half asleep. It is a story of the West and Southwest just before the Civil War and deals with the juggling of state despatches. Ernest Torrence and Ricardo Cortez perform acceptably. Betty Compson, the love interest, is rather less effective...
...Dawes, having filled their engagement at Denver, went to Cheyenne (scene of the recent Teapot Dome oil suit) and took part in many astounding events: Mr. Dawes acted as director pro tern, in the filming of a Western picture, The Pony Express (James Cruze and Betty Compson). He reviewed a Frontier Days parade, was made a member of a Sioux tribe, abandoning his regular pipe for one two feet long with eagle feathers, was christened "Great White Father No. 2" (at the same function, Governess Ross was made "Princess Nellie Taylor"). He entertained a banjo-accordion-saxophone-violin orchestra...