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There was some discussion as to just why that canine was barking so petulantly at Jawn Harvard the other morning during muster, and the best explanation seems to be that they tried to pass off another mutton bone on him at the Union. If he'd had a little more time he'd probably have had all the student officers barking with...
Died. Joseph Early Widener, 71, famed multimillionaire collector of purse-winning horses ; purse-weakening art ; of a heart attack; in Elkins Park, Pa. The shrewd, lavish Harvardman (father of Peter Arrell Brown Widener II, and "Fifi") inherited some $70,000,000 from his father, the late Civil War mutton provisioner P. A. B. Widener I - along with a gilt-edged collection of (chiefly Renaissance) Old Masters. He stabled such thoroughbreds as Fair Play (Man o' War's sire), steeplechaser Arc Light, and Osmond (his favorite), mounted in his white & scarlet such jockeys as the great Earle Sande...
...plus two equals four reminds me of the late dynamic Thomas Balmer. . . . When he was Western representative of the Butterick Publishing Co. (Delineator), 40 years ago, and I was a budding young advertising man from Honolulu, he took me to lunch in Chicago. While waiting for the English mutton chops at St. Hubert's Inn, he popped the question, "How many are two and two?" I baruchly gave the answer, "Four, of course." "Young man." he sternly corrected, "you will never succeed in advertising until you learn that two and two can make...
...Slightly less mutton, lamb and veal (points were raised). But the War Food Administration announced a greater allotment of lamb and mutton for civilians...
...really Keynes' Bancor system working itself out quite effectively; at least, that is the way it appears to me. For example: America supplies Australia with materiel; Australia pays back by supplying the American forces with food. Does this balance out? Not yet, as munitions cost more than mutton...