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Into Wiseman, above the Arctic Circle in Alaska, where men had always hitherto settled their disputes with fist, rifle or pickax, Justice descended last week from the skies. It had come by airplane from Fairbanks - District Judge Cecil H. Clegg, accompanied by a prosecuting attorney, U. S. marshal and court stenographer. The Court also brought melons, cherries and many another pleasing novelty to Wiseman. Before returning to Fairbanks (in central Alaska on the Tanana river), the Court was to hop to Ruby, covering 1,600 miles...
...with a battered lineup, did not look hopefully toward the final game with Yale until a 198-pound oarsman, Forrester A. Clark, hastened down from New London where he had helped take the scalp of the Yale crew. Young Mr. Clark, himself no mean polo player, seemed to inspire hitherto hidden skill in his teammates, particularly in Messrs. Cotton and White. And so, Harvard took the lead and might have won the game-except for the mad riding of tall, angular Winston F. C. Guest, who made seven of Yale's eight goals. The final score: Yale 8, Harvard...
...immortality of Periclean Greece and the work of Phidias. Greece then was under Ottoman dominion. Being a Christian, Lord Elgin found himself obstructed at every turn. His artist companions were forbidden approach to the ruins, let alone entrance. Later Great Britain's arms prevailed over France, and Egypt (hitherto under French dominion) was dealt to Turkey. So enthusiastic waxed the Ottomans over this token of good will, that Lord Elgin was told to go ahead and make all the drawings, paintings, investigations he liked and to take away with him any stones that appeared to be of interest...
...Whirlwind of Youth (Lois Moran). He who runs amuck amongst women is considered the sweetest catch. In this film, evolved pleasantly enough from A. Hamilton Gibb's novel, Soundings, the cocky Lothario finds that a glance from Nancy (Lois Moran) plumbs depths of emotion hitherto unknown and strangely captivating. Most of this goes on in Flanders Fields where he is a soldier and she an ambulance driver; where one may sigh for a battered village and smile at pompous officers...
...family fortune. One of the finest episodes of the book is the one where Senator Buddenbrook finds by chance a philosophical book and becomes enchanted by it-no name is given, but it is unmistakably Schopenhauer's pessimism, entering upon the tired mind of the last member to a hitherto romantic, Victorian, uncomplicated tribe. For, last he is, the last grown-up at least. His son dies as a boy; we accompany him to school, suffer with him the heartaches and the thousand natural shocks that he is heir to. But the first serious attack on Hanno's health severs...