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What was in many respects the most interesting game of this year's U. S. Open Polo Championship came the first day between the robin's-egg-blue stands that run the length of International Field at the Meadow Brook Club on Long Island. Hurricanes v. Hurlingham was, in a sense, a rehearsal for the matches for the Westchester Cup, No. 1 trophy of the game, which a picked U. S. team will defend in England next June. England lost the Westchester Cup in 1921 and has been trying ineffectually to get it back ever since. Ostensibly...
...more than three hundred years ago that Robin Herrick, the jocund lyricist of pastoral England, passed, if we may judge from his Hesperides, a riotous four years in St. John's and Trinity Hall, two colleges backing on the placid Cam. Apprenticed to a goldsmith, he later became a parson in Devonshire, but the fine skill of his rejected trade seems to have followed him into the art of juggling with words...
...York the common stock of Macy's, Best's, Allied Stores, Federated Department Stores and other retail houses broke into new high ground. In high good humor the National Retail Dry Goods Association, summarizing a round-robin of retail opinion, declared: "If the present forecasts for retailing in the fall of 1935 are in any way realized, we shall experience the best fall season since...
...airplane refueling endurance record, a broken cylinder head forced them down after 123 hr. The second time, a storm balked them after 169 hr. On June 4 the two brothers, who operate a flying school at Meridian, went up for a third try in their Wright-powered Curtiss Robin monoplane Ole Miss...
When, on opening night, 7,000 people filled the seats in Robin Hood Dell, gloomy Philadelphians were honestly surprised, cheered themselves hoarse at the end. Conductor was Jose Iturbi who hurried down from Manhattan, played a Beethoven-Wagner program which the musicians had chosen...