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...Mabel Wellington White Stimson, patrician wife of the Chief U. S. Delegate (he told English reporters on landing that two of her ancestors were Mayflowers) last week diffidently approached a lantern-jawed U. S. Marine, who was guarding her husband's door...
...with professional dignity. As a result, there is considerable backbiting and double-crossing going on, and it may be necessary for Prexy Lowell to intervene and put the lecture industry of his professors on a standardized, and possibly, and union basis. Some of the professors are using photographs and lantern slides in connection with their lectures, and it is said that they charge no more for their verbal and mechanical output than the standard price for plain talks with no more accompaniment than a table and a pitcher of water...
...hard for a short man to uppercut a tall man's jaw, but Paulino Uzcudun found how to do it. He would swing a left into the ribs of Otto Von Porat, lantern-jawed Norwegian, and as Von Porat's head came down it would meet a right hand whisking up. Bettors who had figured that the Norwegian had two chances of landing the best punches for every chance squat Uzcudun had of staying away from them, cheered when, in the first round, Uzcudun spread his legs to keep from falling. After that Uzcudun kept his chin...
Thoughtfully picking his nose, Referee Jack Dempsey stood in the corner of a ring in Madison Square Garden while the announcer introduced two fighters. In this corner lantern-jawed Otto von Porat, Norwegian white hope. In this corner Philip Scott, onetime London fireman. The announcer withdrew. Von Porat, Scott, boxed clumsily for a round. In the second round von Porat hit the more agile Scott in the groin. Referee Dempsey helped Scott up and declared him the winner. From the ringside a reporter for the Norway Post, telephoning the sad news to his editor in Oslo, added the suggestion that...
With all of the lecturees in the series, there will be lantern slides of excavations and monuments. Tickets for the lectures may be secured in advance from the Curator of the Lowell Institute, free of charge...