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Three buglers, one at Cambridge, one at New Haven, one at Ithaca, filled three crowded but silent stadia with the long-drawn notes of Taps, in memory of the late Percy Duncan Haughton (TIME, Nov. 3), football coach extraordinary. Thousands of football spectators stood bareheaded the while...
...earth and eccentricity, the story steps with an easy twinkle. But "Old Dawson's Jumping-Off Place," by Mr. Burden, while it contains passages of imaginative glow and dramatic fire, strains plausibility. Even the sub-title, "From an Alaskan Diary", does not entirely persuade us. The "one last, single, long-drawn howl" is too much for us. We receive without accepting. And so of Mr. Whitman's "Shadows of Our Fancy": more poetry than truth, magnificent settings and colorless characters; the shuttle of narrative weaves a gorgeous milieu--and nothing happens...
...sharp knife in three quick stabs. The wife closes the hated book of her married life to go with her lover. Their meeting is all the happiness of life compassed in a moment of anticipation. Then in stunning suddenness comes the lover's death, and as a long-drawn, searing after-pain the wife's turning back to take up again the despised existence of thirty minutes before. True, splendidly characterized and theatrically dramatic in the best sense, "Half an Hour" sets one to thinking alone perhaps none to pleasant channels...
...long-drawn agony ended, I was matriculated at last; and having treated myself to a beer, and then another beer, in honor of the event, I proceeded joyfully home, with the consciousness of having made a good fight and done a good week's work...
...long-drawn sob, a whispered word...