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...baptismal font to the contrary, Edna St. Vincent Millay did not affect her lilting name, but she retains it in preference to her husband's, Eugen Jan Boissevain. A wealthy importer, he was previously married to the famed suffragist, Inez Mulholland. Miss Millay is proud of owning "the smallest house and garden in Manhattan" (Greenwich Village), though Thomas Hardy couples her with skyscrapers, "recessional buildings," as the two greatest things in America. She is coupled, further, with Edgar Allan Poe, as the only American poets to have attained translation into the Spanish...
...backfield is composed of Whisnant, quarterback; Ward and Spaulding, halfbacks; and Foard, fullback. All these men with the exception of Spaulding have had at least one year's experience in intercollegiate competition. The extreme lightness of the quartet is noteworthy. Whisnant is the smallest, weighing only 150 while the other three range between 162 and 166. It is particularly adapted to the wide open game which the invading Tarheels will spring upon Coach Horween's heavier cohorts in Saturday's encounter...
...year ago airplanes brushed through the clouds above the wild Atlantic, in this last summer tiny boats, smaller than those which first traversed it, have been the most spectacular traffickers upon its wastes. The smallest of all these is the canoe, equipped with oar-locks, sails and a motor, in which Franz Romer started out last March from Lisbon to "row" across the Atlantic to New York. This canoe, the Deutsche Sport, arrived in Saint Thomas a month ago (TIME, Aug. 13) and left Porto Rico two weeks later, bound for Florida. The southeastern skies grew dark and a huge...
...Liechtenstein, the European principality of smallest population (11,500), is still independent, still has its own High Court, and is still reigned by Johann Marie François Placide, Prince de Liechtenstein, Duc de Troppau et de Jägerndorf...
...nations, 4,250 athletes, beginning with the Greeks and continuing alphabetically. Cuba was represented by a lone white man; Haiti by a lone Negro. Egyptians wore red fezzes; the rest walked in white pants and blue coats. The U. S. delegation, largest of all, received one of the smallest cheers. A crowd of 40,000 packed the stadium; 75,000 would have paid to get inside had there been room. It was not a smart crowd. The color and boisterousness, the mixture of bigwigs and hoodlums who attend prize fights and horse races were lacking. There was none...