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...have remarked before on the strenuous pastimes of A. Lawrence Lowell, President emeritus. Many Harvard boys pride themselves on their prowess during Marblehead Race week, on their skill in trimming a lib, or on their strength on the main sheet, leaving their Socratic mentors in the Yard to find them new questions for the winter bluebook season. But they do not leave Dr. Lowell behind. Harvard's honored ex-president spent three days of July cruising from Mr. Desert Island in Maine, to Marlon on the Cape, and had so much animal spirits left when he arrived there that...
...Talburt and I lost our chance to get any because the others had lost all our tackle to about a dozen whoppers they didn't land; but we got ours on a similar expedition the week before.) Now if you need further proof of this tale of piscatorial prowess, here's Provensen pictured with his shark; also a picture of that hero resting from his arduous labors reading my blood-stained copy of TIME. MARTIN CODEL...
...Chairman of the World Conference Monetary Committee, and French Finance Minister Georges Bonnet. Last week, a few hours after the Conference adjourned (see p. 16), Chancellor Chamberlain was able to issue a joint declaration by the Mother Country and all dominions except the Irish Free State which proved his prowess as a fiscal snake charmer...
...Gene Tunney, a writer who stands at the opposite pole from Hemingway, having abundantly established his prowess in action...
When Harry Bacharach, no fool at politics, returned from a trip to Europe threeyears ago, 650 of his friends and constituents chartered a ferryboat to meet him. Two thousand more were waiting at Atlantic City, where his political prowess and good works (his family founded a home for crippled children) have endeared...