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...closest events of the evening were the 200-yard back and breast strokes. Paul Santmire and Bill Hoadley easily won their races, but Ned Benton had to come from behind in the last lap to catch Tech ace Bob Jantzen in the backstroke; and breaststroke John Fowler managed to nip M.I.T.'s Bill Buck at the finish...
Here is a recent example that came from a TIME reader by the name of Nip Brigham. It began: "If there is a twin in your office please let him or her handle this problem...
...name is Nip Brigham. My twin brother is Nap Brigham. We both get mail at Post Office Box 1, Dyersburg, Tenn. Nip and Nap both subscribe to TIME-Nip for years, Nap just started. You have now dropped Nip's subscription. You must have extended Nip's with Nap's. Nip's has a year and a half to run, Nap's one year. Please send two copies each week-one to Nip and one to Nap. Nap gets to the box before I do." A little investigation cleared up the mistake. It seems that...
Reported our subscription sleuth: "Nip was only too right. We had not trusted our own eyes. We simply added Nap's new subscription to Nip's old one on the supposition that they were one and the same Brigham. Adjustment has been made, and Nip has been advised." By now two copies of TIME are going to Box 1 in Dyersburg every week-one for Nip...
...nage a àQuatre. In San Francisco, Edward J. Broxton won a divorce after testifying that Nettie Broxton insisted on taking her two dogs, which "sometimes nip at my legs," to bed with them...