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...idol of Boston hockey fandom closed by stating that practically all games are 80 per cent, skill and 20 per cent, luck but declared "that 20 per cent, is mighty important." He added that, with a little more coaching on form and balance, Harvard possessed plenty of skill, and he wished them all the luck, to hold a permanent place in the sun in college hockey...
...Taft School in 1890, soon housed it in an old hotel at Watertown. Conn. Nourished by the eminence of the Taft name, it grew until by 1914 it was delivering up some 25 boys a year to Yale, plus a few to Harvard and Princeton. Headmaster Taft became the idol of his students and got on famously with parents, most of whom smiled at his long devotion to the cause of Prohibition. By 1927 the school ranked among the best in the country and Mr. Taft turned it over to a board of trustees, who shortly raised...
Trailing his glory Old de Bono is now replaced by the Army's idol and the King's close friend. Marshal Pietro Badoglio, greatest of Italy's surviving World War commanders and in 1928, when Mussolini had been Dictator for six years, created Marquis of the Sabotino, the mountain he captured in August 1916 during the Battle of Gorizia. In November 1917 he was made the public goat of Italy's most inglorious rout at Caporetto, but within the Army his Kudos as a commander did not evaporate and he became sole Sub-Chief-of-Staff...
...wife, whose failure to secure parts has driven them to the margin of starvation. Seaching for a fresh face, a producer is taken with a photograph of the wife and offers her the lead in his forthcoming production which is to star Friedrich Gurtler, a tremendous matinee idol who is also, as he himself delicately puts it, a swine. This means that he gets what he wants and at the moment he has an uncontrollable yen for the young wife. She loves her husband deeply but Gurtler, the cad, tells her candidly that it's to bed with...
...first semester to join the Tigers at their training camp, played on Detroit's minor league "farms" for three seasons, rejoined the Tigers two years ago. So far this year he has made 34 homeruns, surpassed Gehrig's batting average .342 to .340. The idol of Detroit schoolchildren, he is approved by baseball-minded Jewish matrons because he is handsome, frisky and religiously orthodox. He has invented his own glove, which is larger than standard, with webbing between thumb and index finger. He makes $7,000 a year, prefers not to play on Yom Kippur. Next week...