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...Story of the Lick Observatory" will be given by Smiley at 8 o'clock and is open to the public without charge. Tickets must be secured in advance...
...McNutt Presidential boom started on schedule January 21 when the State Democratic Committee met at the late Senator Tom Taggart's rococo hotel at French Lick Springs, accepted the resignation of Son Tom Taggart Jr. as national committeeman, elected as his successor Indianapolis Lawyer Frank McHale, deep-voiced, burly onetime University of Michigan footballer, original McNutt-for-President man. Also proceeding on schedule was the campaign against Senator Van Nuys, long on the outs with the McNutt-Townsend-Minton "two percent club," the machine organization to which State employes kick back that share of their salary. Having forfeited...
...know I can lick 'em," cried DePinto as he took his place, his arms laden with the spheres that were to tell the tale of victory or defeat for Harvard. He sent his first ball spinning down the alley and it scattered the candle pins for a perfect strike. He took another shot, and again all the pins were felled, and so it went until his total had sky-rocketed to 149, leaving the Crimson sphere-slingers with their 1686 aggregate score...
...Morrissey's Quinces," a sextet of Yale campus cops, who claim they can lick anybody, will attempt to outbowl a selection of alleymen from Berkely College here tomorrow night. Strong man in the outfit is one Jim McNulty, who boasts a 137 average. Other members of the squad are flatfoots Keegan, Ahearn, Murphy, Kelleher, and Morrissey himself...
Diamond Jim out on the road with instructions to spend all the money necessary to make customers like him. Diamond Jim stuck to this tenet through the panic of the middle nineties with such success that spending money to make money has been the Manning, Maxwell & Moore system to lick depressions ever since...