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...told that the leaguers may perhaps avail themselves of the Calvin Coolidge homestead in which to carry out the ritual. They are to be congratulated on this particularly happy choice, for brevity of speech certainly deserves to be commemorated with brevity of costume. The only unfortunate aspect of all this, is that very likely no new members will be admitted until April, the rigours of a New England winter being considered too severe for mere neophytes, Norman Fradd or no Norman Fradd...
...from Montreal and Toronto, to modified cow's milk. Only Emilie and Marie, the two smallest, remained in incubators. All five totaled 31 Ib. 8-oz., more than three times the 10 Ib. ½-oz. of their first official weight. Almost finished was the special house, opposite the Dionne homestead, in which they will spend their first icy winter as guests of the Canadian Government...
...years ago broad-shouldered Helene Madison, now a cinemactress and out of amateur competition, was the No. 1 amateur girl swimmer in the U. S. Last year Lenore Kight, a pretty, dark-haired husky girl from Homestead, Pa.,* won four of Miss Madison's titles. Last week, Miss Kight successfully defended three of her championships, helped her team win the 880-yd. relay, but in the sprint which meant most ? 100-meter free style ? she came in second...
...suburb of Pittsburgh, site of the Carnegie steel mills, scene of the great Homestead Steel Strike in 1892, which lasted 143 days...
Next noon the three ladies reached Crossville, Tenn., drove to the top of Cumberland Mountain Plateau to inspect a subsistence homestead project. There indefatigable Mrs. Roosevelt declined an invitation from the Mayor of Rockwood to climb the Cumberland's Mt. Roosevelt.* Instead she drove until 8 p.m. to reach Berea, Ky., and a social project dear to her heart. She dined with Berea College's president, kindly, 63-year-old William James Hutchins, father of University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins. The elder Hutchins gives mountain boys and girls a higher education, helps them to earn their living...