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Entries for the billiard, ping-pong, and pool tournaments at the Union for all interested Freshmen will close Thursday night. The tournaments have been organized by the 1936 Union Committee and each one is under the direction of one member of the Committee...
Three members of the Union Committee have been placed in charge of the tournaments. E.L. Blair '36, representative from Holworthy Hall, is supervisor of the ping-pong contest. Braman Gibbs '36, representative from Thayer, is in charge of play in billiards, and S.R. Callaway '36, Massachusetts Hall representative, of pool. Each man will draw up a ladder and a set of rules for his tournament...
Last year a ping-pong tournament was held for members of the first Freshman class in the Union. About sixty men entered, competing for a prize of $10 in gold...
When his father died in 1925 the French returned Bao Dai to Hue, crowned him in 1926, appointed a Regent and rushed him back to a town house in Paris where he played more ping pong, rounded out his magnificent collection of phonograph disks. Last week he disappeared with finality into the Forbidden City where (etiquet decrees) the Emperor of Annam must live invisible to his subjects, remote, mysterious, awesome...
Also invisible is the Young Annamite Party, driven into hiding by the French. Much like the Turkish Revolutionists in 1918. the Young Annamites of today demand proclamation of an Annamite Republic. They refer contemptuously to Ping Pong Player Bao Dai as a "French Emperor" and are not above hatching bomb plots against French Governor Pierre Pasquier who has had several narrow escapes...