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...team to international play, a much-needed opportunity to work in W. Averell Harriman at No. 1, and to settle the contest for the No. 4 position? Every poloist loves and reveres the name of Devereaux Milburn, most famed No. 4 of all time. Meadowbrook fans had to scour their memories to recall an international match when Hero Milburn did not play Back for the U. S four. But this year, he cannot play, must be content to watch from the sidelines, lamenting the hunting accident which lamed him last spring. And for his place, 37-year-old J. Cheever...
...Nominee Curtis. Earlier in the month Editor White had sketched the Smith record in an editorial and Nominee Smith had answered sketchily. He had accused Editor White of giving currency to inaccuracies broadcast by a New York clergyman-propagandist (TIME, July 23). Editor White had engaged two investigators to scour the New York Assembly's Journal. Last week, armed with a mass of documents including photostats, he spoke forth again. He said: "Governor Smith has been a busy man, a fine, useful American citizen since he left the New York Assembly [in 1915]. But, in his many activities...
...place as the intelligence department of the Harvard squad demands, my presence here. John Quinn Knoss is to scout Penn during the first half and tell the boys what to do in the second half, while I scour them in the second half and tell the boys what they ought to have done in the first half...
...Manuel, making him out ridicuously admirable for posterity, as a pious widow should. Gonfal of Naimes is told to go southward and does so, becoming a champion of misadventure among the Transcendentalists of Inis Dahut, enjoying the favors of their dark queen, Morvyth, while younger, less sensible men scour the earth for some marvelous token that will win her hand...
...Australia, Premier Bruce announced, last week, the Parliament will adjourn during the fleet's visit (July 23-Aug. 6). On the homeward voyage, detachments of the fleet will scour the Pacific. Tahiti, Tai-o-Hae, Nukuhiva, the Marquesas and Galapagos, as well as practically every Pacific possession of the U. S. except Guam, will be visited...