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Northeastern also won its first match-a 5-3 triumph over Vermont, a fairly good Division 2 team-but the game was a travesty. The Huskies played shorthanded for the majority of the game, and Northeastern goaltender Dan Eberly kicked in two Cataniount goals himself...
...should U.S. buyers travel to Paris for their designs? Not all of them do. But the plain fact is that Paris has a reservoir of skilled needleworkers and a tradition of craftsmanship that no other nation can match-a tradition established largely by the simple fact that no other people have been willing to devote so much time and thought to their clothes...
...weeks ago a football match-a summer sport in Italy-was to have been held at Turin to decide the championship of Northern Italy. Unfortunately, the contending teams from Genoa and Bologna and their supporters arrived simultaneously in the city and a riot was with difficulty prevented. The game was postponed for two days. Meantime, feeling ran high, higher, most high. Insults became deadly, deadlier, most deadly. Threats became bloody, bloodier, most bloody. The Prefect, alarmed, said there would be no game this year in Turin...
...BLUE-H. C. McNeile ("Sapper")-Doran ($2.00). Melodrama being his métier, the author of Bull Dog Drummond fares only moderately well on the cramped stage of the short story. His happiest efforts are with humor and suspense, as Uncle James's Golf Match-a rib-splitter-and the titular tale of this collection, wherein a murder is averted by the veriest trifle. In other instances, suspense is fool's gold. The nugget of denouement fails to pan out. In still others- The Porterhouse Steak, about a starving but proud war hero; The Film That Never...
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