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This week John Murray Anderson has devised a cabaret worthy of this whole column. When we describe a big padded cell with plucked geese hanging from the ceiling, we convey almost nothing to the reader. Perhaps it would be better to mention the ballet dancer whose knees kept letting her down onto the stage, or the singer who turned a back flip on the final note of the famous aria from Aida, and started clogging directly afterward. But all in all it is hard to express the true spirit of matters bughouse, for Mr. Anderson has done it in such...
...quietly goes his way as one of Rhode Island's three Congressmen and does not even mention in his official biography in the Congressional Directory that his father was Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich...
Meagre French-censored despatches carried no mention of the reaction produced upon the Druses by these terms. The Druses have long feared and hated the French, and were especially bitter against M. de Jouvenel's predecessor, the ruthless General Sarrail...
...mention was made of the fertility of these new strains. The mule (donkey and horse), as every one knows, is sterile and cannot reproduce his kind; likewise the "turken" (turkey and chicken) (TIME, Dec. 14, MISCELLANY), the "liger" and "tigon" (lion and tiger hybrids). This factor bears directly upon such hybrids' commercial value. Great would be the fortune of that showman who could advertise an "eleraffe" or "rhinocerdile," whether the animal was sterile or not. Greater would be that showman's fraud, however. It is impossible to cross animals not of the same order or family...
...fifteenth Annual Competition for the Topiarian Club Trophy Cup has been won by Richard Karl Webel '23, now a third-year student in the Graduate School of Landscape Architecture, it was announced last night. Honorable mention has been awarded to Carol Fulkerson 3G., and to H. B. Campbell...