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...they organized for last week's game. Month ago, Winston Guest was in London, just back from lion-shooting in Africa. His cousin Michael Phipps called him up from Florida, urged him to reorganize their team. Guest flew to board the Bremen, flew from Manhattan to Virginia to inspect his ponies, played one practice game in Manhattan and took train for Chicago. Iglehart got word in Paris, came over on the Berengaria, played in Chicago the night after his boat docked in New York. Last week Guest's team retained its Class A championship by beating the Sixth...
...were overjoyed when, at a ceremonious Manhattan pre-showing of their stylish new Frigidaire (icebox) which "costs no more to run than one ordinary electric light bulb," Albert Einstein, on his way to Switzerland (instead of anti-Jew Germany) for the summer, got down on hands & knees to inspect the machine thoroughly, called it a "marvel," said it would be welcome in Europe where electricity is far dearer than...
Said Archeologist James Henry Breasted, 67, as he sailed with Mrs. Breasted to inspect twelve units of Chicago's Oriental Institute diggers in the Near East: "It makes you feel utterly insignificant to dig and find that those people were so concerned over things that mattered so much to them. . . . And to come across all their tweedle-de-dums and tweedle-de-dees. . . . Given time, others will laugh at our tweedle-de-dees...
...Briskly up to the White House, with the orchids on her sealskin coat bobbing in the morning breeze, walked Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt to inspect her home after March 4. Mrs. Hoover received her in the Green Room. From there they went on a complete tour of the White House from attic to basement. Mrs. Hoover pointed out the furniture that was private property. In the cellar they saw expert Army packers crating up things for shipment to Palo Alto aboard the naval transport Henderson from Norfolk. Each crate bore big black letters: "Mrs. Herbert Hoover, Stanford University. In care...
...that the department of Biology, an unlimited field of the usual type, has announced a general meeting for its members, to take place in the New Biological Institute. The purpose of this gathering is to enable the teachers and students to become acquainted, and to allow the undergraduates to inspect some of the research now in progress. The step is admittedly experimental, but its example may be of considerable importance in influencing others to follow...