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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...than a good bot tle of "bubbly." Of course Bordeaux of the very oldest and greatest years, such as Châateau Yquem 1874 or Châateau Haut-Brion 1875, are well nigh unobtainable at any price. Preferred brands of Champagne are Clicquot Veuve, R. Bollinger and G. H. Mumm. Generally speaking the correspondence of wines to food is : red meat - red wine ; white meat - white wine. Markedly sweet wines, however, are not to be served with meat at all. Thus Sherry goes with either soup or dessert, Châateau Yquem always with dessert. As to preparing wines...
Even news of a royal prince-H. R. H. the Duke of Gloucester-was subordinated last week to the following item which London's august Times placed prominently at the head of its daily column "News In Brief": The cuckoo was heard on Monday morning in the coppices at Coombe Hill, Surrey. Two items down appeared an intimation that the Duke of Gloucester, third son of His Majesty George V, had consented to become the Patron of a charitable institute. Provokingly mysterious and stimulating to alert imaginations was a third gem of news, the eighth in the column...
Last week an aspirant to the French Academy of Sciences, Dr. H. Barjot, printed in Paris his suggestion to the Academy of a temperature-differential power plant the inverse of Academician Claude's. Dr. Barjot would generate his power in Polar regions where water under the ice is 32° F. (freezing) or warmer and the air above 20° below zero or colder. He would pump sub-ice water into a surface tank partially filled with butane or some other hydrocarbon of low vaporization point. In the tank the ice water would freeze and release it? comparative heat...
...Within the old red and gold auditorium, humped in an inconspicuous seat, waited General Manager Gatti-Casazza. sphinxlike, beard sunk deep on his chest, pondering the ways of music in the U. S. Up in his box, sleek, important, pleased, sat the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Otto H. Kahn. And in that over-stuffed audience were heard the boastings of the Mayor and 200 citizens of Kansas City who had paid $50,000 for a special train to carry them there for the great night. Kansas City had found Marion Talley. Kansas City had launched her, backed...
...will probably be Robert Gilmore '31, pitcher, and E. L. Sims '31, catcher. Both of these men were on the Freshman squad last Spring. Following is the complete lineup; Gilmore, p., Sims, c., D. F. Davis '30, 1b., T. G. O'Neill '30, 2b., P. A. Ketchum '31, s.s., H. L., Huxtable '30, 3b., K. W. Crotty '30, c.f., C. P. Atherton ocC, 1.f., G. A. Donaldson...