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Sixty-two years ago, in 1875, fifteen good Harvard men and true and one substitute invaded New Haven and licked the handlebar moustaches off the home team in the first Harvard-Yale football game in history. The gruelling contest lasted an hour and a half...
...Handlebar-mustached Senjuro Hayashi, leader of the "Gold Braid Cabinet" of generals and admirals which took office last January, was Japan's No. 1 exponent of military aggressiveness. In four short months the gold braids outraged the civilian party politicians, high-handedly suspended the Diet's lower house, forced an election, lost it but insisted on staying in office (TIME...
Ever since Japan's Army pushed out pacific little Premier Koki Hirota four months ago and installed a "gold braid" Cabinet of generals and admirals, swashbuckling new Premier General Senjuro Hayashi has been twirling his handlebar mustaches menacingly at Japan's civilian Diet. The Diet's Minseito (majority) and Seiyukai (minority) parties were induced to swallow the largest budget in impoverished Japan's history, $802,400,000, of which more than one-half is earmarked for the Army & Navy. Last month Swashbuckler Hayashi's mustaches stiffened when the Diet finally turned stubborn...
...mother, Lillian Russell, was not even acquainted with Mr. Brady during the bicycle era. As for the vehicle itself, it had a goldplated handlebar with mother-of-pearl grips, no diamonds. The pedals were also goldplated. The bicycle was a gift from the Columbia Bicycle manufacturers in appreciation of the vast amount of publicity they derived from her using their product and because she had purchased so many of them, one for each member of the family. . . . DOROTHY RUSSELL...
...days when halfbacks wore handlebar mustaches and laced their canvas jackets up the front, football rivalry between Yale and Columbia was a fixture of the sport. They played 17 games. Yale won all but the fourth game in 1875, and the one in 1899, when famed Halfback Harold Weekes ran 70 yd. for a touch down that counted five points and won the game...