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...than fluidity of style has been the criterion for the excerpts chosen, a corresponding absence of uniform literary merit calls forth neither surprise nor complaint. Side by side with such brilliant prose as that in which De Quincey illumined the mysteries of laudanum, we find the halting periods of Kavanaugh, whose bravery saved the British garrison at Lucknow. The biblical account of the exodus from Egypt offers strange contrast, both in time and in method of approach, to the war diary of a flighty young aviator. In lesser vein are the colorful tales of spies, condemnations, countermands in the nick...
...summary: HARVARD TUFTS Briesen, Nichols, g. g., Kavanaugh F. Wemple, r.f.b. r.f.b., Whittaker Grossman, l.f.b. l.f.b., Smith Thacher, Morrill, r.h.b., r.h.b., Page Ware, c.h.b. c.h.b., Urban Robbins, l.h.b. l.h.b., Fairfield, Davis, Porter Baxter, r.o. r.o., Sharkey Seeman, Clarke, Thacher, r.t. r.t., Klopp, Morse Kandoian, c.f. c.f., Dummett Fraley, l.t. l.t., Gauger Russell, Bloomberg, l.e. l.e., Wilcox...
Died. William Kerr Kavanaugh, 72, St. Louis coal and shipping tycoon, baseball enthusiast, leader in the Great Lakes-to-the-Gulf waterway project; of pneumonia; in St. Louis...
...Louis enthusiasts is perhaps Theodore Seiberg. a coffee salesman, who has been attending baseball games for 40 years. Men like Lawrence Boocher, a vice president of the Boatmen's Bank; Ralph J. Hager of Hager Hinge Co.; James McFall of the McFall Livery Co.; William Kerr Kavanaugh who owns a large St. Louis coal company, all go and take their friends to Sportsman's Park every afternoon they can. Edward Magnus, a vice president of Diesel Engine Co., watches every game and takes his family twice a week. Paul Bowling, an official in Star Bucket & Pump Co., keeps...
...takes terrific tumbles which are funny because he, as well as the audience, feels them coming long before they happen. Mr. Mahoney also smears part of his face with lampblack and burlesques Mammy songs in a way which should, but probably will not, eliminate them as legitimate amusement. Ray Kavanaugh's orchestra, which helps to promote such fetching tunes as "Song of the Moonbeams" and "Kinda Cute," not only rises mechanically from the pit, but moves slowly back across the stage and is ultimately hoisted high in air to accompany a hectic first act finale...