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...STRANGE MURDER OF HATTON, K. C.-Herbert Adams-Lippincott ($2). An honest oldster, dead of a dagger in his eye, upsets a houseparty. Thereafter follow arson, blackmail and attempted murder...
...Come right on in, Judge!" cried Secretary of State Hull one day last week as he steered a tall thin, baggy-eyed oldster into his press conference. To surprised newshawks Secretary Hull warmly continued: "I think most of you know our new Assistant Secretary of State whom we are fortunate enough to get into the Department-Judge Moore." "Judge" Moore's long face wrinkled into a pleasant smile. He made a stiff little bow, drawling: "Gentlemen - er- er- good morning. I consider it a privilege to be associated with Secretary Hull. We served together for years in the House...
...very good tennis, on the outer courts. This was the Veterans' Championship, for players over 45. In the final, onlookers beheld one of the most extraordinary tennists in the U. S., Clarence M. Charest, win the title for the third time, against S. Jarvis Adams, an unseeded oldster from Port Washington...
...nothing serious by making short work of little Ryusaka Miki of Japan. Next day Lester Stoefen of Texas and George Patrick Hughes of Ireland defeated Lee and Clifford Sutter, respectively. Little Henri Cochet. who had been riding a bicycle to harden his leg muscles, did amazingly well for an oldster of 31 but when he played Vines in the semifinal, he lost to him for the third time in a row. In the other bracket Jack Crawford of Australia beat Jiroh Satdh...
...motor refused to kick the little schooner out into the wind. Naval mechanics found a broken valve spring, had to send to Camden for a new one. The President did some public business with Private Secretary Early, who was aboard the Ellis, received two lobsters from an 87-year-oldster who claimed he was the oldest Democratic voter in Maine, signed a musty old hotel register just below ''U. S. Grant...