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...heard of Harvard, but would not elaborate, and confined her answer to admitting she was heading for the Copley with a friend from across the Charles. At this point we made the request that she skate tomorrow on the river, guaranteeing her a large crowd, but she smilingly refused...
During the Christmas vacation this Princeton team, undefeated in their preliminaries, journeyed to Canada and watched the Canadians skate circles around them, Toronto by 10-0, Queens 6-1. And when the Canadians came down here, Princeton lost two more, McGill scoring three times in the opening three minutes of play to start a 12-1 rout. Montreal alone was held in check, the Tigers being edged by only one goal...
Looking like a giant's roller skate (see cut), the Marsh Buggy has an ordinary Ford V-8 motor coupled to a McCormick Deering tractor gear box and mounted on an expanded automobile frame. The four wheels are air-tight aluminum drums on which are mounted the largest rubber tires ever made for commercial use. Designed by Goodyear, they are 10 ft. high, 3 ft. wide, have a normal pressure of 6 lb. per sq. in. Both axles are pivoted so that each wheel can rise two feet without distorting the frame. There are ten forward speeds, six reverse...
...long been known as "Hell's Kitchen." At ten o'clock, just as the pair got back into their car, a youth jumped on the right running board, asked a tip for watching the car. Importer Gambinossi gave his companion a dime to hand him. "Cheap skate!" snarled the young man. Gambinossi got out. At once four other hoodlums jumped on him. All five gave him a severe beating. When he got away, he limped to the nearest police station...
Should the solid, saucy-faced little blonde appear in cinema, most of Europe's royalty would be her devoted fans. Queen Mary gasped when she saw Sonja in 1928, deplored the fact that she herself could not figure skate. Edward VIII has paid her many a kingly compliment. In 1934 ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Germany gave her his diamond stickpin crowned with the Hohenzollern crest. Her own sovereign, King Haakon VII of Norway, sends her a telegram or cable before every foreign appearance. And Reichsführer Adolf Hitler this winter invited Sonja and her parents...