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Last month U. S. President Rutherford B. Hayes's Grandnephew Rutherford Fullerton, a retired businessman from Columbus, Ohio, invited two young U. S. artists and the wife of one of them to a game of ping-pong and a round of brandy at the Hotel Mediterraneo in El Terreno. They were all feeling fine when the artist's wife, Mrs. Clinton Benedict Lockwood, heard sounds of a row between the doorman and a drunk. She went to pacify him while the doorman left to get help. He returned with a big stranger, dressed in an opera bouffe green...
...undeclared war from Manchuria down through Jehol Province into an arc south of the Great Wall, last fortnight's truce had by last week actually brought to North China what Premier Wang Ching-wei called a "breathing spell." To bind the verbal agreement, Chinese Lieut. General Hsiung Ping last week went to Tangku on the seacoast. As he stepped off his swank special train, he saw two Japanese destroyers tied at the docks. Their guns were trained on Tangku, the gun turrets manned. A Chinese armored train pulled in, its guns trained on the destroyers. Every 20 feet stood...
...Great Hall, where 150 trenchermen may dine on 16th Century refectory boards beneath the festal banners of Siena; six Gobelin tapestries which cost $575,000; carved ancient choir stalls; the bed of the great Richelieu for guests; $8,000 vases; gold dinner plates and paper napkins; a ping-pong table of medieval wood; a lavish theatre, where each night is shown the latest talking picture film, very likely flown that day from Hollywood; and 150 men and women menials to tend the comfort of their lord...
...Freshman Class Officers and escorted to the platform, where he will be introduced by Shaun Kelly, Jr. '36, class president. The President's speech will be followed by short talks from Kelly, F. R. Moseley, Jr. '36, and R. S. Playfair '36, secretary-treasurer. Cups for the ping pong and pool tournaments will be awarded by Kelly...
...James Jacobson of New York: the national ping-pong championship: 23-21, 21-9, 21-13, in the final against the defending champion, Coleman Clark of Chicago; in the grand ballroom of Chicago's Palmer House hotel...