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Archery-golf was originated four years ago in San Francisco, not for meteorological reasons. A big game hunter, archery enthusiast, held golf in low esteem, challenged a golfing friend, each to use his favorite weapons. Last year it was introduced in less favored climes as a winter sport. It "caught on." This winter has seen the game in high favor at Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, other snowbound golf centres...
...lover who is also an enthusiast for wild nature, an exhibition of paintings of wild animals by Carl Rungins now being held at the Casson Galleries at 576 Boylston street, should present many attractions, while one with a taste for water colors might well take a trip to the Grace Horne Gallery or the Copley Gallery. Even the Vagabond who wanders further and finds himself at Wellesley, could do worse than go to the Farnsworth Art Museum there and see an original portrait by Tinforetto. But it is hardly to be expected that such a one would be interested...
...memory book are: Mrs. James W. Wadsworth Jr., who fought against woman suffrage; Mrs. Harry S. New, amateur cinema exhibitor; Mrs. William E. Borah, mouselike in comparison with her tigercat husband; Mrs. John P. Hill, stylish wife of a swanky husband; Mrs. William Howard Taft, music critic and enthusiast; Mrs. Curtis D. Wilbur, able cook; Mrs. Frederick H. Gillett, wife of a Senator and one-time widow of a Congressman, hence, interested in politics; Mrs. Louis D. Brandeis, who writes poetry; Mrs. Frank B. Kellogg, able hostess; Mrs. Thomas D. Schall, who is eyes and inspiration for her blind husband...
...that as it may have been, there was much else for the Pope to talk over with Guglielmo Marconi. The Pope, besides having been a hardy mountaineer, is a radio enthusiast. As he awaited .the inventor's approach, as he fingered the gold medal he was about to bestow, the Pope may have reflected momentarily upon just a few of the week's news items, indicative of the vast sphere which this intense, blue-eyed, light-haired Italo-Hibernian set in motion as a youth only 30 years ago. The Pope may have realized...
...Your typical jazz composer, or jazz enthusiast, is merely a musical illiterate who is absurdly pleased with little things because he does not know how little they are. Had he any knowledge of history he would know that all that is now happening in jazz happened many centuries ago in vocal music, and that the end in the present case will be the same as in the earlier...