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...Care." Eva herself was an old story by now, but this latest romp had given conversation a new spice. For weeks, shopgirls riding the crowded subway of Buenos Aires had aired their views. "I don't care what she was," said one. "I just hope she can do what she promises." Pomaded young executives in the Calle Florida and stolid porteños (citizens of Buenos Aires) sipping tea in the Boston Bar rehashed the question of Eva's position. "I don't mean to be snobbish. I don't mind her humble origin...
Born in the bush of French West Africa, Bushman was captured in babyhood. He got to Lincoln Park in 1930, weighing 38 Ibs. Almost every morning for 4½ years, Keeper Eddie Robinson hitched Bushman to a 75-ft. rope and took him out for a romp on the monkey-house lawn. Man and beast wrestled, ran races, played football. Bushman learned how to heave a neat underhand pass, run with the ball, dodge tacklers. He was always gentle and obedient...
...school a year ago. It is equipped with such luxuries as an oil furnace, a cafeteria and a swimming pool. Tuition: $25 to $35 a month. Classes and subjects are much the same as in any U.S. school, except that French becomes as important as English: kindergarten children romp around singing French songs, kids in the lower grades give French plays. "Our real value," says De Rosay, "is to meet the needs of children going to the States for higher education. The plus value is that we like to return them less provincial. . . . The U.S. may have more running...
...Leavitt to me," chortled the Sage with a Glinut in his eye, "this CRIMSON-'Poon game is Jester romp. Wood you believe it?" he remarked to his crony, "the Crime has Rheault over the lbisters by the same score ever since the paper first made Profits...
Life on the Volga. The outskirts are full of little 50 by 60 plots, fenced in with any stray piece of wood or wire. Kids romp in the wide-rutted clay streets, while fathers & mothers are off rebuilding the city, and an old babushka hangs out the washing on a line stretched over a gooseberry bush from a young peach tree to a young cherry tree. Even in the middle of the city, chickens scrabble among the ruins...