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DING DONG BELL-Walter De La Mare-Knopf ($1.75). Two people-a young lady with a silk sunshade, an old gentleman with an umbrella-meet on the platform of a country railroad junction. They have hours to wait. An express goes by; in the hush that follows its passing the old gentleman remarks: "Fifty years ago you could have cradled an infant on that tombstone yonder-Zadakiel Puncheon's- and it would have slept the sun down. Now, poor creature, his ashes are jarred and desecrated a thousand times a day-by mechanisms like that." To scan more closely...
...Forum on 'Women in Washington,' I described Ruth Hanna McCormick, wife of 'lameduck' Senator Medill McCormick of Illinois, daughter of the late Mark Hanna. Said I: 'With her black eyes and lovely long lines, she has every characteristic of a thoroughbred racing mare...
...Beattie and Gibson, and it may be recalled that Beattie was well up in this event at the indoor Intercollegiate. Hills was second and Captain Emery Fourth in the 1923 I.C.A.A.A.A. hammer throw. They are a little stronger, that last year and a have a sophomore team-mare in Gates, who may succeed Tootell of Bowdoin as champion. It is easily possible that the Tigers will capture ten or twelve points in the hammer, and that Emery and Gates in the discus and Gibson or Drews in the javelin will also break into the summary. Johnson in the pole vault...
Died. Enchantress III, daughter of Collar, mother of In Memoriam, valued at $40,000 (said to be the most valuable brood mare in the country) ; in Lexington, Ky., after foaling a bay colt...
...Rolf de Mare, famed impresario, also returned to Paris from America. Said he: 'Audacious works like The Skating Rink, by Candou les Maries, and La Tour Eifel, by Jean Cocteau, are beyond the American's narrow comprehension and slow...