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...Clifton H. Seaver of Springfield, Mass., wearing dirty white linen knickerbockers, a No. 13 on his sweater, to represent his age: a gold wrist watch, a vacation trip, a bicycle; for beating Sidney Diez of Baton Rouge, 7 games out of 10, in the final of the U. S. marbles championship, with 200,000 entrants: at Ocean City...
Last fortnight Herald Tribune readers found in the rotogravure section a half-page advertisement of R. H. Macy & Co. offering men's white broadcloth shirts at $1.69 and linen dish towels at 17?. Attached to the picture of the shirt was a two-inch sample of white broadcloth; to the picture of the dishtowel, a square of green-striped linen...
...while spectators applauded and workmen cheered. May Gould, 20, daughter of Albert Gould, Boston admiralty lawyer, swooped a bottle of champagne down at the bow of her father's new yacht, missed. Down the greased ways slid the unchristened schooner. Slipping, skating, skidding behind it, trim in starched linen suit and white hat, plunged May Gould into the icy water. One hundred yards out in the bay, the champagne bottle slipped out of her hand. Three hundred yards out, she caught up with the yacht, grabbed her bottle as it bobbed by, smashed...
Newsmen in flannels and white linen danced, sipped punch, ate ice cream in the state dining room, showed their wives and friends through the ground floor rooms, down to the swimming pool and out on the terrace. Instead of retiring early as he does at state affairs, the President stayed up until 11:30 and Mrs. Roosevelt did not leave until 1:00. ¶ Congress sent President Roosevelt a bill to equalize nationalization rights for men and women and grant U. S. citizenship to children born abroad of U. S. mothers. The State Department reported to the White House that...
Western Union's President Roy Barton White, an oldtime railroad telegrapher who rose to run Central R.R. of New Jersey, had hung out the first bit of dirty linen by sending telegrams to his big customers, inviting them to protest and declaring that for all intents & purposes the President's Code was Postal's code. Bitterly he lashed the proposed fair practice clauses which minutely regulate leased wires, exclusive contracts and special services. At last week's hearings he thundered: "We strenuously object to injecting in the long-established rate arrangement . . . provisions which we know will...