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...Harvard team will be as follows: g., England; l.f., Stent; r.f., Robinson; r.h., Richard; c.h., Dorman; l.h.b., Vincent; r.o., Grover;, r.i., Clos; c., Manheimer; Li., Stork. Lo., Wood...
...moment Miss West's claim to sole authorship of the two-line vaudeville gags which serve for dialog. Typical cracks: "A man in the house is worth two on the street." "That guy's no good. His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." "What is your favorite sport? Don't embarrass me. boys." (In front of a picture): "It's an old master, you know. . . . . It looks like an old mistress to me. . . ." "Are you here for good? Well, I'm here, but not for good...
...front cover) The compass point of all Europe last week was a huge square brick and stucco manor house in East Prussia atop which perched pensively a knobby-kneed stork called "Oscar...
...servants say that Oscar must be nearly as old as the President's son, spruce Lieut.-Colonel Oscar von Hindenburg. With his nameless mate Oscar spends his winters in Africa, as do most East Prussian storks, but summer finds him always back at Neudeck to bring not babies but good luck to the 86-year-old Reichspräsident. In backward, superstitious East Prussia nothing is so unlucky for a great landed Junker as to lose his stork. "Take care of Oscar" the President benignly commands when leaving Neudeck, and Oscar, so peasants think, takes care of Old Paul...
...Thomas Montgomery Howell gave three albatrosses which, hand-fed four times a day, had last week broken all records by staying alive six weeks in captivity. The Society has paid $100,000 for the rest of its 600 mammals, 1,500 birds, 500 reptiles. Sample prices: lion, $250; Maribou stork, $35; chimpanzee, $400; elephant, $4,000; giraffe, $3,500 (three for $7,500). All in one batch, for $11,000. the Society bought from an Australian zoo 1,200 birds, 300 reptiles, and 200 mammals, mostly kangaroos. From Minneapolis for $250 the zoo got Mrs. Grace Olive Wiley...