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...Clifton H. Seaver of Springfield, Mass., wearing dirty white linen knickerbockers, a No. 13 on his sweater, to represent his age: a gold wrist watch, a vacation trip, a bicycle; for beating Sidney Diez of Baton Rouge, 7 games out of 10, in the final of the U. S. marbles championship, with 200,000 entrants: at Ocean City...
...Henry A. Diez, Vienna newspaper correspondent, investigating the cases of ''158 persons who can prove they are more than 100 years old," reported that illiteracy-U. S. bugbear-seemed quite as effective as curds in keeping Bulgars alive...
...Education," wrote Correspondent Diez. "is not a thing that matters when one wishes to outlive one's fellows. On the contrary, it seems that illiteracy keeps off a lot of excitements that may have a weakening influence. Of all Bulgarian centenarians, only twelve can read and write...
...Peking, where they will be under the supervision of the Harvard-Yenching Institute which was established last year. The following four men, all of whom have already completed work under eminent sinologists at Harvard, will go to China next year: James R. Ware, A.M., University of Pennsylvania '25; Ernst Diez, Ph. D., University of Graz '02; Carl Schuster '27; Eugene K. Biggerstaff...
...subsequent aggression of Bolivia against Paraguay was sonorously alibied, last week, by Bolivian delegate Diez de Medina, addressing the Conference in Washington...