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Author Bata Kindai Amgoza Ibn Lo-Bagola has had a hard, queer time. A black man but a Jew, he is a native of the Ondo bush, hinterland of Dahomey, in western Africa. His people, according to legend, left Palestine after Roman Titus' sack of Jerusalem (A. D. 70), fled to Morocco, to Timbuktu and farther. There, swallowed up by African natives, they still remained a Jewish sect, continued Jewish rites. Says LoBagola: they carry out the ceremony of circumcision to the letter, "although not in the same way as in Palestine today. Our rabbis permit...
...Nugent '30, at short and H. L. Huxtable '30 at third. This combination seems well on the way to being the Crimson's starting infield in the first game of the year with B.U., except that W. B. Wood '32 will probably replace Donaldson at the initial sack...
Harold Janvrin, who will pilot the Second University team this spring, will be introduced at the gathering tonight. Janvrin, who played the keystone sack for the Boston Red Sox during their championship days, has also seen major league service with the St. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers...
...presiding officer?an odd fellow who technically does not sit in the chamber while he presides, but must be just outside within an imaginary circle on a large red cloth "sack" or wool-stuffed cushion...
...Father of the House of Lords" is that genial golfer George William Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry, two years younger than Lord North, and one of the last two or three men in England to wear a top hat every day, even with a sack suit. The Countess of Coventry, past her fourth score of years, likes to say; "I can still do my five miles in jig time on a tricycle, and how many of your young people can?" As a private collection, the Earl's gallery of historic oil paintings at Croome Court is second...