Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London, Conn., June 14. The Crimson oarsmen spent another comparatively quiet day yesterday with the crucial race of the season now less than a week off. With the most strenuous part of the training season behind them the University rowers will devote the next few days largely to polishing off their form and to bringing themselves to the pink of condition physically for their battle with the Blue next Friday...
...Harvard cantonment at the Red Top crew quarters will be filled to its capacity when the Freshman and Combination crews take up their residence in the colony. Leaving Boston at 1.05 o'clock tomorrow, the men will arrive at New London in the evening to be taken at once to Red Top and occupy the old Freshman quarters. Coach H. H. Haines and D. R. W. Borwn '32, Freshman manager, will accompany the crews...
...Taking Ponselle's cold hands between her warm ones, the grand old prima donna delivered a warning: "Now, my dear Rosa, don't expect Covent Garden to be like your Metropolitan. Above all, don't expect applause for your great aria, 'Casta Diva.' A London audience wouldn't clap the Angel Gabriel himself until the curtain was down and the proper time for applause had arrived...
Next day the newspaper critics came as near to "raving" as Britons can. London was Rosa Ponselle...
Samuel Cox Hooker is 65. He was born in Brenchley, England, studied chemistry at the Royal College of Science in London and the University of Munich. In 1885 he came to the U. S. Two years later he married Mary Elizabeth Owens of Cincinnati, by whom he has two daughters, two sons. For 30 years sugar refining was his interest. He was director of the American and Spreckels Sugar Refining Companies, of Great Western Sugar Co. In 1916 he retired to devote his time to chemical research. Magic is his chief hobby. He has been a modern Merlin since...