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...breakneck speeds along Irish lanes, he has now taken to the air. Says he: "It's the only excitement left the middle-aged man except the divorce courts, and it's far more respectable." On his latest visit to Manhattan (last winter) he gave reporters a lively half-hour, said something new about Manhattan's skyline: "Keyserling says you have not mastered nature, but I think you've made the Rocky Mountains jealous...
...estimated at Winthrop House that 35 to 40 per cent of the men took their meals in the first half-hour. Fifty men ate before six o'clock its Dunster while 135 ate after that hour. Approximately 50 per cent of the diners at Leverett were found to eat during the first half of the meal period...
...second half of that inning was a half-hour uproar. Critz was on first with one out when Bill Terry lashed a two-bagger into left field, putting Critz on third. Crowder prudently gave Ott a base on balls, to the noisy disgust of the bleachers. Then to the plate shambled a tall, stooped figure-"Lefty" O'Doul. An oldtime hero of the Pacific Coast League, in 1932 O'Doul was No. i batsman of the National League, but a 1933 slump had put him on the bench, to be brought forth only in a pinch like this...
...week-end of fishing down the Potomac. The President wanted no military display of the fighting force he had mobilized for possible service in revolutionary Cuba, no semblance of a presidential review which might be misinterpreted in Latin America. Aboard the Sequoia he had to wait a half-hour for his son James to arrive by army plane from Boston and join his party. To kill time he summoned Col. Richard P. ("Terrible Terry") Williams, commander of the 7th Regiment, to the Sequoia's deck, discussed the Cuban situation with him, told him what would be expected...
...nearly ten years Dr. Charles St. John Butler, Navy captain, has been throwing axes into logs for a half-hour each day. Last week in the American Journal of Surgery he told why and how he does so, urged others to do likewise for the sake of their health...