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...wide & handsome aspects of the Jazz Age-Red Grange swivel-hipping toward the goal line, Dempsey and Firpo in the ring, Babe Ruth putting the ball and ball game away with a long clout to right field. The nation, turning from dance marathons and speakeasies, held its breath while Lind bergh flew the Atlantic, Gertrude Ederle swam the Channel, and miners tunneled in vain to save Floyd Collins from a Ken tucky cave...
...queens and courtiers. There was the bland map of Healy's greatest patron-King Louis-Philippe of France. There were Andrew Jackson's maned, hard head and the bristle-bearded", tormented and flinty face of General William Tecumseh Sherman. There were Franz Liszt, Henry W. Longfellow, Jenny Lind...
Time for a Trip. Suave Finance Minister Leon Debayle wrote Lindberg asking for figures on his departmental expenditures for use in the new budget. Lind-berg's reply was short on details. "I want to know about those dollars," cried Debayle righteously. Managua's press joined...
...lineups: HARVARD ARMY Chase g Harris Allen ld Johnson Carman rd Weber Dl Blasio lw Morrison Huntington c Bonfrey Garrity rw Lind...
...completeness make it a valuable source of theatrical information: Cornelia Otis Skinner did research for her book "Family Circle" there; queries along the lines of "should Macbeth be played in kilts" are always coming in. A movie company once called up from Hollywood to find out whether Jenny Lind had ever sung in some saloon in Tombstone, Arizona. (She hadn...