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...Scratch the gate in the painting," said Grandson Millet, "and you will find a cow underneath...
...more than usually noticeable. No grim study of jungle ferocities and hardships. Baboona is rather the record of a unique vacation. It shows Africa in friendly mood, swarming with gay pygmies, ingratiating birds, responsive game fish. Mount Kenya looks like a Swiss Alp on a postcard. The monkeys scratch themselves with holiday enthusiasm. Only the rhinoceroses are ugly, and even they waddle off with gentle indecision. Good shot: a group of amiable lions lolling around the carcass of a zebra...
...chaste grey walls of the Valentine Gallery were last week given over to a one-man show of the later drawings of James Grover Thurber. Gallerygoers, stepping sideways like crabs, passed from frame to frame in which were exposed the backs of old letterheads and odd sheets of scratch paper on which were scrawled the amiable bloodhounds, the horrid boneless women, the bald, browbeaten little men of Artist Thurber, associate editor and one of the two most successful members" of the staff of The New Yorker...
...months munitions and their manufacture have become the stuff of which headlines are made. Ever since the War the U. S. has teemed with anti-war feeling. The veterans had it. Public-spirited citizens had it. Women's clubs had it. Priests and preachers had it. Men might scratch their heads over the rights and wrongs of social or economic questions but it took no second thought to agree that War was Evil. Enthusiastically the U. S. plumped for limitation of naval armaments in 1922. Enthusiastically the U. S. plumped for Secretary of State Kellogg's multilateral treaty renouncing...
...Coach Lamar says that all men who come out will probably be able to box in at least one bout even if they do not make the team and encourages all who are interested in boxing to see him. Experience is not necessary as all now men start at scratch. The following schedule has been arranged for the Varsity this year: Dec. 15, M. I. T.; Jan. 12, Virginia at Charlottesville; Feb. 9, Springfield; Feb. 16, Army at West Point; Feb. 22, Pennsylvania; March 2, U. S. Coast Guard at New London, and Dec. 9, Yale...