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...roseate vagueness until all the days of youth become "carefree" and all the trees have become immemorial elms. Memory is usually kind to the college years, and the returning grad of the nineties condenses them into a pleasant bundle of names and anecdotes neatly tied with a red diploma ribbon...
...month his 29-mi. black ribbon cut down into the ice one foot. It continued to melt the ice away and the Casca sailed out some 30 days earlier than usual through a nicely defined channel...
...fencing tournament held in Vienna as part of the Emperor Franz Joseph's Jubilee. When he was 17, he was unbeatable. He has won five Olympic championships. During the War he served as captain in the Italian cavalry. The king gave him the Blue Ribbon of the valor medal and made him a Knight. He was an amateur until 1920 when the Jockey Club of Buenos Aires offered him more than $1,000 a month to teach fencing to its members and their sons. After three years he left Buenos Aires because he was bored there. For exhibitions...
...State's witnesses were evasive. Gamblers Alvin C. Thomas ("Titanic Thompson") and Nathan ("Nigger Nate") Raymond, describing a $300,000 stud poker game, said that McManus was a "cheerful loser." Bridget Farry, hotel chambermaid, who went to court in an emerald dress with a green ribbon in her hair, silver stockings and gilt shoes, refused to identify McManus. The prosecution could not connect McManus with the battered automatic, could not establish a motive why he should shoot Rothstein for owing him money...
...Vanderbilt Cup. At a corner table the donor of the cup sat, ruddy, youthful, in a brown business suit. Expert Sidney S. Lenz was sick and could not play, but Wilbur C. Whitehead was there, smiling through pince-nez attached obscurely to his clothing by a neat black ribbon. Present were Ely Cuthbertson and his wife, Josephine, famed as the most dangerous married couple in bridge. All felt that the occasion was significant for something beside the trophy at stake. It was a contest between two basic theories of contract bridge. In recent months the "Vanderbilt convention" (TIME, Sept...