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GARNETT (Edward) Papa's War and Other Satires...
That in 1908 he and his "papa" visited the Wendel mansion on St. Patrick's Day, whereupon he was asked to leave the house...
With its captain and fullback, Nollie ("Papa'') Felts, permanently barred from varsity athletics because he once played professional baseball, Tulane, threatening to leave the Southern Conference at the season's end, managed to tie Vanderbilt in the rain...
South carolina's big team went north for the first time, upset Villanova, 7 to 6. First scandal of the year concerned Tulane's captain, Nollie (''Papa Nollie") Felts. Someone charged that he had played professional baseball before he went to college. While the matter was being investigated, Tulane, without Felts, drubbed the Texas Aggies. 26 to 14. Pop Warner's new Stanford team used a bewildering collection of reverses, double-reverses, spinners, laterals and forwards to muddle Oregon State in one of the longest games on Pacific Coast Conference record. 27 to o. It was too early to guess...
Stirred by the story of how beloved Marshal ("Papa"') Joffre saved Paris with the aid of Galliéni's improvised ''Taxicab Army" and flung back the Germans from the Marne, more than 4,000,000 U. S. schoolchildren gave nickels, dimes and quarters to pay for the Marne Victory Monument first presented to France in May 1921 ''in return for the Statue of Liberty." Last week the schoolchildren's gift, an exciting 130-ft. granite figure of France Defiant shielding a wounded poilu, was "re-presented and unveiled" by U. S. Ambassador...