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...October 28, 1636 the General Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony "agreed to give 400? towards a schoale or colledge." Already a committee has been appointed for the celebration of the 300th birthday of Harvard University, oldest, richest, proudest in the land...
Paunchy "Art" Young has been a figure in U. S. journalism for nearly two generations. An old-line Radical, it is his proudest boast that he is the only U. S. cartoonist ever to be tried for sedition as a result of his pacifist pictures in the old Masses during the War. (Two jury disagreements resulted in a mistrial.) "Art" Young has two predilections, Hell and trees. His interest in Hell started as a boy when he used to pore over the family copy of Dore's Dante. . His first book of infernal drawings, Hell Up to Date...
...motormakers which brought their glistening yearlings to the Show last week, proudest was General Motors. Its litter was six-a full line. Apple of its eye was Cadillac, its high-priced line at $2,395 for the V8, $3,995 for the V-12's and $6,650 for the V16. Built only on order, the V16 remained a limited edition. All Cadillacs have independent front-wheel suspension ("knee- action...
...year-old ruler of vast energy. In his eight years' reign he has spent some $2,000,000 on such improvements as building 1,000 miles of new fences, grubbing 15,000 acres clear of mesquite and chaparral to plant them with Rhodes grass from Africa. He is proudest of his new breed of cattle, the Santa Gertrudis, achieved after many a year of experiments. It is a cross of Indian Brahma cattle, which are resistant to the tropical heat and diseases of southern Texas, and pure-bred shorthorns, one of the great English beef breeds. The result...
...David Graham Muschet Campbell's favorite boast that by Gad, sir, he knows how to ride a fractious horse. A Major-General, a K. C. B., Governor of the colony of Malta, his proudest moment was that spring day in 1896 when he won the Liverpool Grand National, a gentleman jockey, on The Soarer. In 1931 he was sent to handle a very fractious horse indeed, the island of Malta. Malta is Britain's most important naval base in the Mediterranean, but Malta is only 60 miles from Italy. Hundreds of Italian emigrants have settled there; most Maltese...