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...party last week at Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia. He has been severely ill with laryngitis, but last week his physician, Dr. Solomon Solis-Cohen, allowed him to receive reporters. A Morris chair was set at his bedside, and Mr. Macdonald, clad in flannel pajamas, got up, donned a bathrobe, sat down???frequently mopping his brow with a folded handkerchief. He spoke in a bitter, tired voice of the British Government's now pending anti-strike bill (TIME, April...
...Forward Pass. To discourage the prevailing indiscriminate recourse to aerial attack by losing teams in the last few minutes of play, the Committee ruled: "In a sequence of downs?that is to say, between first down and first down???one incompleted forward pass will be permitted without a penalty, but thereafter each incompleted forward pass will draw a penalty of five yards...
...accepting our offer to join them?such reservations as that the war fleets of the world be abolished and an International Police of the Seas be established before we join, or that the Court be completely reorganized and given a new constitution. The resolutions of the opposition were voted down???no more than 22 votes could be mustered on behalf of any of them...
...reciters, has been thrown together on the screen in just the way that might be expected. The Yukon episode, which forms the poem, has been prefaced by incidents in a South Sea dance hall and a Broadway cabaret, from which the greatest pleasure is derived when the cabaret burns down???but without the loss of the chief performer, Barbara La Marr. She plays the lady known as Lou, who runs away with the gambler Dan into the Klondike where her piano-playing husband, through a faked telegram, is supposed to have lest his beautiful trust in her. He follows...