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...advantage of the latter in his new comedy. A native of the Indiana town who has made a fortune in New York invites his boyhood friend to the city to be best man at his marriage to a Manhattan girl. But the small towner, known as "Pig Head" Ban croft, is suspicious of all folks from the city and he manages to disrupt the romance temporarily before he is convinced that virtue is not lost to New Yorkers. About this scenario Mr. Cohan has writ ten a comedy of much comic effectiveness, if of no especial dramatic merit. Robert McWade...
...note in TIME, Aug. 2, a letter from Terrell Croft, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, stating that your July 12 issue was delivered by the Mexican postman at 4 p. m. on July 14 to his address. I'll admit that in this case TIME made good time. However, I wish to advise the gentleman from Yucatan that Montana is always to be found on the map, and is not in the "slow" class by any means. Your issue of Aug. 2 was received by me at 9 a. m. this morning, Aug. 1. It happened to be Sunday, which accounts...
Sirs: Your July 12 issue was delivered by the Mexican postman at 4 p.m. on July 14, to this address. This is pretty good going-is it not? TERRELL CROFT...
...stroke-thwart was E. C. Hamilton-Russell. The bird-like little coxswain before him had a plain name, J. A. Brown, but J. A. Brown was impressive enough for the Oxonians. J. A. Brown had already steered two Cantab crews to victory in as many years and Sir James Croft, the mouse-eyed little man in the Oxford stern, peeked over at him nervously. But Sir Jeremy could have been by no means so nervous as two others present: R. T. B. Craggs, Cambridge No. 4, who had been substituted at the last minute for a man down with measles...
...Yards Dash.--Won by Helffrich, Penn State; second, Croft, Princeton; third, Bates, Dartmouth; fourth, Chapman, Yale; fifth, Gage Yale. Time...