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Back in Maysville, Okla., Brother Arthur Post ran to and fro between town and farm with news of the Winnie Mae's progress, but the pilot's elderly parents were too busy with cutting hay on their 90-acre farm to drop their work. In a general way they were proud of Son Wiley, although "he didn't have our blessing when he started out in this flying business." But the simple fact of his safety meant more to them than the geography of Siberia...
...little poodle trotted to & fro one day last fortnight in the old Manhattan house where Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel lay dead (TIME, March 23). He went into the room where Rev. Drs. Nathan A. Seagle and Ezra Squier Tipple were getting ready to conduct the funeral. He jumped up & down before them, "as if," said Dr. Seagle, "he were pleading to serve as an acolyte...
...Charles is not about to join Sir Oswald he at least parroted New Party doctrines in a letter to the press. For example Sir Oswald has said: "The Government runs to and fro like a chicken in front of a motorcar, cackling economy slogans to their opponents. The way to meet this nation's difficulties is not by negatives of panic but by positives of action...
...will be one more week before the Stadium will again harbor its football crowds and before the Lars Anderson Bridge will again be alive with the throngs going to and fro, but despite this the season for Harvard football followers really opens today. Every one of the eight opponents that the Crimson will meet this year gets into action today while one of them has even played one game already. The scouts and the dopesters will be busy today as they get their first chance for definite opinions and the first basis for comparative scores...
Charles A. McCulloch is chairman of Parmalee Co., whose buses take trunks and travelers to and fro between Chicago's many railroad stations. He is largely interested in both the Chicago and New York Yellow Cabs. A onetime newsboy, he took part (in 1915) in an Old Newsboys' Day, stood on a corner with his newspapers, sold them out swiftly by the expedient of crying, falsely, facetiously, "Doubleuxtree! Charlie Ross is found!" There is a Loop story that when the late J. Ogden Armour was in a state of acute financial difficulty, Mr. McCulloch offered him a check...