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...latest volume the author of a series of stories about Harvard has assembled a collection of trivia on subjects ranging from African hotels and earthquakes in Mexico to Theodore Roosevelt and the hoop--skirt. to the average reader they will appear as nothing more than a few sketches which Mr. Flanders might have discover by accident in a forgotten drawer of his desk then sent off to the publisher in a moment of weakness. To most of us they are lacking in interest: one might as well read Christopher Motley's collected essays and be done with them...
Henry A. Roemer, president of Continental Steel Corp. (Kokomo, Ind.), was elected president of Sharon (Pa.) Steel Hoop Co. Past-president Severn P. Ker becomes chairman...
...rain and someone had the idea of racing them instead of horses. Last week 10,000 entries arrived in poultry cars to race in the sixth annual terrapin derby at Ponca City. Their owners chalked identifying numbers on their diamond-panelled backs and put them under a big canvas hoop in the middle of a circle. Up went the hoop as the crowd shouted. Many turtles lay still, inert or stupid. Others began to move at frenzied speed but grew discouraged and lay down or remembered something and went back. A few plodded on to the outer line...
...Purple basketeers breaking a long line of defeats, by taking advantage of its height and the opponents' light weight tipped the ball into the hoop time and again while the Crimson dwarfs stretched in vain. Driscoll, high point man, with 16 points to his credit, standing head and shoulders above the Harvard guards, had only to stand under the basket and knock the ball in as it bounced off the board. He sank fouls when Rex and Burns tried to keep him down...
...Goods. In 1872 Lyman Bloomingdale, an assembler of hoop skirts, was left jobless by fashion changes. He opened a dry goods store, recorded net sales of $3.63 the first day. In 1928 Bloomingdale Bros. (Manhattan) reached the net sales total of $23,000,000. Last week it finally joined a long-planned department store merger which will consolidate it with Abraham & Straus (Brooklyn-Started in 1865 by Abraham Abraham, who was joined in 1893 by Isidor Straus, chinaware merchant), William Filene's Sons Co. (Boston-Headed by William E. Filene who unsuccessfully sought injunctions to prohibit large stockholders, including...