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...boatings of the crew will remain unchanged from that which on two occasions left the other House shells floundering in its wake, with the exception of the replacement by Phillip S. Weld '36 of John C. Storey '35, who pulled at number three position. The oarsmen are as follows: cox, Wallace E. Howell '36; stroke. Thomas H. P. Whitney '35; 7, Richard Stackpole '35; 6, Arthur Reaue, Jr. '36; 5. William W. Pront '36; 4. Harry Marvin-Smith '36; 3, Weld; 2. Samuel D. Warren '36; and bow, Ambrose C. McCabe...
When first seen in Viva Villa, Pancho (Phillip Cooper) is a ten-year-old peon brat watching the underlings of a haciendado beat the life out of Villa Sr. He shoots the flogger, scampers into the hills. He is next to be observed grown up into Wallace Beery, head of a plundering horseback gang, with a lieutenant named Sierra (Leo Carillo) and a childlike appetite for shootings and hangings. When Francisco Madero (Henry B. Walthall), who was historically Mexico's president from November 1911 to February 1913. appears on the scene he realizes Villa's usefulness, invites...
...dymaxion, invented by Buckminster Fuller '17 and built by Phillip C. Pearson '18, has the appearance of an airplane without wings: it contains a Ford V-8 engine, and is supported by only three wheels, two in the front and one in the rear. The original dymaxion had a wooden body, and was wrecked in an accident on its maiden trip to Chicago. Its descendant, however, has an all steel body and cannot be smashed in, it weighs 3600 pounds, has a 182 inch wheelbase, and will turn in an 11 foot circle. One of the cars, which sell...
Actor Morgan's real name is Francis Phillip Wuppermann. Josephine Wuppermann, his mother, is, at 82, president and treasurer of Angostura-Wuppermann, sole agents for Angostura bitters in the U. S., Canada, Mexico and Cuba. Only three persons know what Angostura is made of, and a Wuppermann is not one of them. Mr. Alfredo Galo Siegert of Trinidad, grandson of the first man ever to brew Angostura, shares his secret only with a brother and a brother-in-law. Lest something happen to ail three at once, a copy of the formula is locked in a bank vault...
...Renaissance chapel of the Carnini family for a U. S. client, turns homeward, followed by Count Mario Carnini (Tullio Carminati). In a Paris hotel she accidentally stumbles on her son Deedy (Dickie Moore), decides that she wants him back. She gets a job redecorating the home of his guardian Phillip Lawrence (Otto Kruger), sets out to replace his fiancée (Betty Lawford), who slinks through the story sneering at one & all. Innocently she eggs her son into spilling a bucket of fresh fish over the fiancée's dress, finally trades Count Mario...