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...ball in Brussels than when discharging his military duties. Nonetheless, when he hears that "Boney" is advancing on the city, the Iron Duke drags himself from the dance floor. He wins the battle calmly, sheds a brief tear for his fallen officers, moves on to Paris to outwit Metternich, the Tsar, Blücher and the King of Prussia. All this time, he is carrying on a mild flirtation with a young and flighty matron. When the peace of Europe is attended to, Wellington ends his philanderings, returns to London, gives his Eton sons pats on the head and winds...
...John Stewart Baker, 40, chairman of the second oldest private bank in New-York, $502,000,000 Bank of the Manhattan Co. Like his father Stephen before him he was president of the bank at 34, and his great-grandfather helped Aaron Burr outwit Alexander Hamilton by chartering the bank as a water company in 1799. Mr. Baker's Manhattan Co. owned New York Title until December 1932 when it was divorced from the parent holding company. Mr. Baker is not related to George Fisher Baker Jr., also a well-known Wall Street banker...
...first American play, written by a Harvard graduate of the class of 1776, presents a delightful view of early colonial life. A Yankee colonel and his bumpkin servant, who is the first stage Yankee, arrive in a highly Chester-fleldian New York. They contrive to outwit the urbane, unctious continental-mannered dandy, using humorous, embarrassing and patriotic devices. The play winds up with an oration by the Colonel upholding the independence and superiority of the good old United States. Good scene: the bumpkin servant attempting to gain cherub in consequences from a servant girl...
...peppy Terrier sextet, fighting every inch of the way, forced the Harvard ice outfit to the limit in the Arena on Saturday night, and it was not until the final minute of play that Benny Beale was able to outwit the B.U. goalie with the shot that gave the Crimson a 3-2 victory...
There across the Charles River the Harvard student, Franklin D. Roosevelt, disciplined his mind for the grave responsibilities of today. There Lowell penned his poems against slavery; there Hawthorne wrote his "Scarlet Letter"; there Washington schemed to outwit the enemy; there Bell invented the telephone; there Rudy Vallee got his start. The New Yorker...