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Field events, now the mainstay of the Varsity, are not a Yardling specialty, but as the Exeter meet showed, are a sizeable source of the necessary points. high jumper Ed Mahoney who registered the winning score in the schoolboy meet, may repeat his performance next week, but will have his hands full against the confident Indians. Cliff Howard and George Hibbard are the Crimson contenders in the shot put. In the broad jump, Bob Gillette has covered over 21 feet this year, and in his native California he done even better...
...lawsuits that grew out of Soviet expropriations have piled up more interest costs and legal fees than the original claims, yet a great many of them remain unsolved after twenty-three years. But the potential legal complications after World War II make the Russian claims look like a law schoolboy's homework...
...Manhattan Socialite Bertrand L. Taylor; Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (who gave her a 30-foot cabin cruiser); Peruvian Artist Reynaldo Luza; Adventure Writer Edgar Wallace; and her distinguished leading man, the late Sir Gerald du Maurier (who, despite his distinction, she describes as having been "just like an inky schoolboy with frogs in his pocket...
...pity, but their eyelids are a little weary. Confirmed Wodehousians hoot, holler, writhe, snort, bellow, nicker, and in culminating transports, belch. Asked why, they may look blank, indignant. Anton Chekhov once said that the best description of the sea he had ever read was written by a Russian schoolboy: "The sea is vast." Wodehousians explain the master's illimitable spell just as simply: He is funny...
...Since then, First Attempt -renamed Little Squire-has been the darling of U. S. horse shows, the household pet of his four successive owners: Rider Danny Shea (trainer for the stable of the late Publisher Hugh Bancroft), Copperman Robert Guggenheim, Boston Clothier William J. Kennedy. Schoolboy Francis Cravath Gibbs (13-year-old grandson of the late Lawyer Paul Cravath), who paid...