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...attempt to avoid a repetition of this year's unsatisfactory record, Coach Wesley Fesler has decided to inaugurate spring basketball practice. Out of seventeen games played thus far, Harvard has won only three, and Fesler has been continually changing the lineup in an attempt to find an efficient combination...
Stowell has been undefeated in seventeen consecutive dual meets during the last three years, and he is acknowledged to be one of the outstanding backstrokes developed in college swimming. Coach Ulen has already clocked Stowell in trials and has recorded a time of 2 minutes, 33 seconds, and he is confident that his captain can beat the record...
Twenty years ago "Buck" Buckley was a University of Chicago footballer. Seventeen years ago he was president of Crowell Publishing Co. (Collier's, American, Woman's Home Companion, Farm & Fireside). Ten years ago he was president and publisher of Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner. Since 1926 he has been a vice president of National City Bank in Manhattan. Chicago newsmen remember "Buck" Buckley as a loud-cursing tough-acting man who really is mild and human. He now lives on Manhattan's upper East Side in a brownstone house with a front door painted an Irish...
...money behind the business seems to have raised the average age of the Babbitts to seventeen instead of twelve. When the Metropolitan Opera Company can be heard without interruption for a whole Saturday afternoon, when we may enjoy the Philadelphia Symphony fifteen minutes nightly, when Koussevitsky is on the air from three to five every Sunday, there is certainly balm in our etherial Gilead. Those are, of course, the high spots. But the steady listener cannot have failed to appreciate the general improvement of the average program. Whether it is because the technical developments in both transmitting and receiving apparatus...
...rather difficult position; when he finds further that his maid Abby has one more of the pictures, and sells it for twenty-five thousand, only to have her refuse to part with it, he is in a still more trying spot; and when he learns that Abby has seventeen of the pictures which he had thought burnt, things are undeniably stirred up. Through all this, Barrymore is solid in the shoes of his character, and subtle as well; he gives his audiences everything from fine, little touches of comedy, to non-sentimental sentimental scenes. By all means...