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Several causes are given for Lampy's demise. It was not generally known that the cozy little home of the publication was not only built on sand, but was built on a flimsy bridge over the same underground river which is causing so much trouble to the builders of McKinlock Hall. Since every year the spring freshets add to the instability of the edifice, the editors have not felt it worth while to pay off the huge mortgage on the building. This mortgage was foreclosed yesterday afternoon...
They give as reasons for the decline and fall of baseball in the U. S. (TIME, Jan. 18), the public disapproval of professionalism, the conversion of sand-lot diamonds into building sites and the rise of Bobby Joneses, Paavo Nurmis, Vincent Richardses, Harold Granges. Men that have played the game a lot will add, with point, that there can be no good baseball without good umpiring. And umpires, unlike poets, are made, not born...
...growing old but duties require me to keep in touch with momentous issues of the world. TIME for two years has spared my feeble eyes much labor among papers and magazines in sifting for me the gold from the sand...
Died. Mrs. Lee Collins, 66, step-mother of famed Floyd Collins, who was suffocated in Sand Cave, Ky., in February, 1925; at Cave City...
...Kayenta Plateau, near the famous Rainbow National Ridge, the expedition came upon a great cave. Working their way into the sandy cavern the University explorers entered the moulding dwelling and discovered two perfectly preserved dogs and two Indians, almost buried out of sight in the soft dry sand. It was evident that these Indians and their hunting dogs, since the day of their deaths, had lain in this dry sand and had undergone a natural process of mummification in which the dry atmosphere and the sand had combined for the result...