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...Wally's favorite models was Sergeant Alexander Woollcott, star reporter for The Stars and Stripes. Woollcott, elegant of uniform and gait, swooning at the sound of a tire blowout, was pictured with Reporter Hudson Hawley, whom Wally made famous as the "Salut-ing Demon." In the hectic offices of The Stars and Stripes, Wally found other models: Editor Harold Ross, now editor of The New Yorker; Poet Tip Bliss, whose dog tried to bite General Pershing on his only visit to the office; Colyumnist Franklin Pierce Adams (F. P. A.); Mark Watson, now Sunday editor of the Baltimore...
...South America. Horror stories deluxe have told of men working stark naked in the sizzling tropical jungle, of lust, greed, murder, homosexuality in prison cages crammed with killers, rapists, thieves. Other tales have told of years of maddening isolation in "bear pits" on one of the three Iles du Salut (variously translated as "Safety Isles" and "Isles of Salvation''), ten to twelve miles off the mainland...
...prisoners in the colony 4,500 never leave the mainland. If the convict is considered incorrigibly dangerous, however, he may be sent to one of the Iles du Salut, high, rocky, mile-long Ile Royale, and there set at hard labor, perhaps even put in an isolated pit. If considered a mental case he may enter a madman's cell, on Ile St. Joseph. If he has been convicted of treason, he will probably be sent to live in a hut on the most famous of this trio of islands-the 34-acre, bleak Il du Diable, or Devil...
...first outstanding match was between Captain Brusati and Miguel Capriles of the American Olympic Team, and following these came Joe Lewis of the Boston Athletic Association, captain of the American International Team, and Gilbert Kerlin '33, who prefaced their bout with the Grand Salut...
...Lane brothers, who were both on the 1924 Harvard team that won the Intercollegiate Foils Championship, as well as the best men on the present squad, to participate in a few bouts with foils, sabre, and epee. Last year a special feature of the program was "Le Grand Salut", a series of involved passes and gestures, performed by Grasson and Peroy...