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...player, with his bushy, grey beard, dinky red & yellow cap and sometimes cranky disposition, he was as well known as Disraeli or Gladstone. As batsman, between 1865 and 1908 he made 54,896 runs, never surpassed. He considered cricket a science, was meticulous in his selection of bats.* The bat which "W. G." preferred was straight-grained willow. With such a bat a scientific batsman like himself could calculate all the forces of his drive. To supply demand for such bats numerous Englishmen took to growing plantations of cricket willows, making comfortable fortunes therefrom. But lately growers complained to England...
...last month to choose one, they would surely not have chosen Groucho Marx. He lacks the manner, the appearance, the erudition proper to the post. Nonetheless, at the beginning of Horse Feathers (Paramount) it becomes clear that the trustees of Huxley College have been so haphazard as to select Groucho. thinly disguised under the pseudonym of Professor Wagstaff, for this honor. He is discovered on a rostrum, where the retiring president of Huxley is addressing the faculty and student body. Attired in a mortar board, with a tailcoat over his arm, Groucho is shaving his false mustache in a portable...
Though Congress vacated the Capitol fortnight ago, its manifold committees, regular, special, select and joint, were left last week with plenty of summer work to do. The House and Senate had ordered a mass of investigations, probes, surveys, inquiries, studies, inquests and hearings, each of which meant toil and travel for one or more members at public expense...
...power of government should be taken away from those who administer it for the benefit of a privileged few. . . . Because I demanded that the Reconstruction Finance Corp. make public its use of the people's property, the President in effect said: 'No. That's for the benefit of my select clientele and the people mustn't know what's done with...
According to the publishers Mrs. Roosevelt will read and select all manuscripts, has already written the editorial for the first issue. She will have an office in the Macfadden Building but is not expected to be there regularly. Most of her editorial work will be done from the Executive Mansion at Albany or?if her husband should be elected President?from the White House...