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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Churchill, Kimball Bldg., Boston, will take the place of the late J. R. Carret; for the class of 1875, former Dean Le Baron R. Briggs, R. F. D. 1, Bournedale, will fill the vacancy caused by the death of W. A. Reed; and for the class of 1893, W. De L. Howe, 947 Exchange Bldg., Boston, becomes secretary in the place of the late S. F. Batchelder...
...seat, hurdled on to the stage. "He was leaning forward," wrote Olin Downes, "exhorting the orchestra, molding every phrase and gradation, spurring and reining that band at will, leading it up to climaxes of shattering intensity. . . . At the end every one lost his head except a newspaper photographer. De Grignon rushed frantically from the wings. He and Strauss fondled, kissed and babbled over each other. The photographer caught them on the fly and forced them to freeze in that attitude for a moment . . . the two men were genuinely angered...
...ships go by. At the Lido, Venice, Plight Lieutenant Sidney Norman Webster, one of the British entrants for .the Schneider cup, broke all speed records with an average of 281.488 miles an hour. The best previous record, 246.496 miles an hour, was established last year by Major Mario de Bernardi, of the Italian air force, who wrested the cup from the U. S. at Hampton Roads...
...Fraser, Canadian, defeated Glenna Collett, twice national champion, 2 and 1. Spectators said that Mrs. Fraser was in form again to win the title, which she held three times as Alexa Stirling of Atlanta. Spectators approved their surmise the next day when the heavily-heralded Mile. Simone Thion de la Chaume, champion of France, champion of England, lost the first three holes to Mrs. Fraser and the match 3 and 2. But something happened. Mrs. Fraser fiddled away her next match to a little-known Kansas City wife, Miriam Burns Horn. Mrs. Horn, once western champion, won 1 up. Meanwhile...
...Tell It To Sweeney", the Conklin-Bancroft opus at the Metropolitan this week, depicts the trials and tribulations of two temperamental throttle pushers at a rapid tempo. "Come on, Salome, get hot," shouts Cannon-Ball Casey, engineer de. luxe, to his sawed-off but antagonistic fireman, Luke Beamish, who blows off quite as much steam as either the classy "Oriole Limited" or the relic of the Gay Nineties, the "Isobel." And between "the greatest mistake since Vesuvius" and the little "pipesqueale" there materializes enough excitement to keep the two locomotives "throttle up" throughout most of the picture and the audience...