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Last Saturday, playing on a pocket-handkerchief floor in New Haven, the Crimson poloists took the Yales 17 to 12. This Saturday, when they will have their usual elbow room, even cautious Captain Chester Sargent, grizzled veteran of years of army polo who is coaching the Harvard malletmen for the first time this year, has to admit the cards look stacked for the Crimson...
...down the house. But when the teetering Swedish soprano, Goeta Ljungberg. undertook the role at Manhattan's Metropolitan in 1934, her chiffon-hung shuffling drew titters. Not only was Soprano Ljungberg a dithering dancer, she annoyed the cash customers by starting her dance costumed like a cyclone-swept handkerchief counter, finishing it fully clothed...
...victims of the terroristic movement told the News, "The guys came into my room and served me with a summons and told me that I ought not to bring out a handkerchief so much during ten-minute papers. It was giving me a bad name with the organization...
...Five and Ten covered exposed legs; the water coursed down the smooth surface of the cloth onto the backs of those in front. Gentlemen turned down the rear brim of their hats, and the water spouted into the face of those behind. The Vagabond's girl borrowed his handkerchief to tie down her unstable hat; one was not enough, however, and she claimed his pocket handkerchief--it was blue and white; it now is bluish white...
...hosts, Publisher Carl C. Council arranged to have his Durham Herald City Editor Bob Mason interview President Hill after the festivities. City Editor Mason appeared, was given no interview, carried away only an impression of a flashily-dressed man in a rich brown suit, bright red tie and pocket handkerchief, cowboy hat. He returned to his office, wrote that President Hill "looks more like a circus barker than a millionaire." Next day distraught citizens had visions of angry President Hill building no more warehouses in Durham, perhaps even moving American Tobacco operations to friendlier cities. President Hill, noted...