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Hazel-eyed, dark-haired, 6 ft. 3 in., and 40, Winner Hill is a broker (Manhattan's Calvin Bullock), married to onetime Elinor Dorrance (Campbell Soup). Winner of the hard-fought prettiest-girl title was blonde Adelaide Whitehouse, debutante daughter of Mr. & Mrs. William Fitz Hugh Whitehouse of Manhattan...
Before sallying forth, it would be well for the University to take stock of the situation. The roots of the spoils system are strong and firm. In these days of Curley and Roosevelt, the wilderness has won back much of the hard-fought ground gained by the first hardy pioneers, as recent reports of Civil Service League amply affirm. There are even some supposedly sane-minded observers who believe that the wilderness should be preserved for its original denizens, unscrupulous politicians, in order, we hear, to preserve the party system...
Japanese Threat. It is easy to understand why France and Britain should not feel too unhappy at the idea of Italian control of Abyssinia. Their neighboring colonies have suffered severely from raids by Abyssinian tribesmen. Italy would probably stop that. Nineteenth Century Britain was content to discipline Abyssinia in hard-fought border skirmishes. Since then she has acquired peaceably what she wants most in the country: control of Lake Tsana, source of the Blue Nile and life blood of the thriving Sudan cotton fields. Djibouti in French Somaliland is the port of entry for all Abyssinia, and France already controls...
...rugby team took over the Deerfield Academy booters yesterday 11-0 in a hard-fought game. The Academy boys put up a good match, ending the first half with the score 3-0, but during the second half they relaxed enough to allow the Crimson forwards to score seven points...
...team, like the local aggregation, is composed largely of sophomores, and hence has no edge in the matter of playing experience. If the Harvard team can bit the high point that it touched against Dartmouth, a victory is in the offing; in any case, the game will be a hard-fought...