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...children do not take it quite so well. Son Robin, carefully analyzing the situation, speaks rather bitterly of "my maternal grandfather, my paternal grandfather, my only grandfather." What makes the case even more difficult is that two of the Stace children were engaged to marry two of Mrs. Lang's offspring. The engagements had to be broken off, to avoid fresh incest. And when Sophia dies abruptly of "some internal illness that is mortal." the children really feel it is time for them to go and live somewhere else. The neighbors agree that this is a wise move, though...
Exchanged Sarcasms. Such respectful words have beauty of a sort for Charles Randall Brown, a heavy-set and hard-boiled Southerner who reads the Bible in the King James version nightly, revels in discussing the Koran with Turks and writes round-robin letters to his friends back home about his visits to foreign ports. Admiral Brown is both sensitive and salty. "You can't put a martini in a refrigerator," he says, "any more than you can put in a kiss"; and he sums up his 1921 wedding to Marylander Eleanor Green in a quaint, jazz...
...third year as number-one singles, he is playing better than ever. He is currently ranked number seven in the United States and is the Intercollegiate Champion. Only Diehl Mateer and Henri Salaun can be expected to beat him in national competition, and recently in the Ticknor-Glidden Round-Robin, Heckscher had a 2-0, 9-2 lead on Salaun, before the ex-national champion could rally to a victory...
Within the coming week, Harvard's eight House intramural hockey teams will begin their fourteen game round-robin schedules at the Watson Hockey rink...
Crimson coach Bruce Munro is still retaining the line-up which snapped the six-game losing streak at Princeton. Hank Holmes will be at outside left, Tom Bernheim at inside left, Jim Shue at center forward, Ken McIntosh at inside right, and Robin Magowan at outside right. John Felstiner will go at left halfback, Captain Grey Hodnett at center half, and Tony Oberschall at right half...