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General Henri Joseph Etienne Gouraud, Military Governor of Paris, long of beard, lame of leg, empty of right sleeve, arrived in the U. S. for the first time since 1923 to attend, in Baltimore, the annual convention of the Rainbow (42nd) Division which was under his command when he broke the German offensive in the crucial Battle of Champagne (July 1918). Historians recalled that both General Gouraud's legs and one arm were riddled in Gallipoli. Surgeons said the arm would heal in three months. The General asked how soon he could return to the front if the arm were...
...Watkins '31 and V. L. Hennessy '30 have been somewhat lame this week. It is doubtful if these two crack sprinters will be able to run on Saturday, but Vernon Munroe '31 is rapidly rounding into shape after an injury and may in part repair their loss...
...being returned to the House of Commons at the General Election of May 30 next (see below). A detective testified that Miss Mason had said to him before she was arrested, "There's no mistake. There's only one Snowden in the Commons, and only one lame Snowden...
...record of 1.16 3-5; Reid in the two miles, Maynard of Dartmouth in the high jump, Levy of Cornell in the shot-put, and French of Harvard in the broad jump. French has rounded slowly into top stride; Maynard until recently has been handicapped by a lame back, but Reid, Swope, and Levy are in prime fettle, although I'll be surprised if Reid wins both the mile and two-mile...
...under his favorite alias, "Private Shaw." In the House of Commons the Government parried questions as to whether Colonel Lawrence had fomented the revolt against King Amanullah of Afghanistan (TIME, Jan. 28). Admissions that he had been stationed at Peshawar, India, on the Afghan border, were coupled with the lame assertion that "Lawrence was granted no leave of absence from his duties as a private in the Royal Air Force." As everyone knows, British R. A. F. planes are constantly operating over Afghanistan...