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...cigar he had not smoked during some faculty meeting and give it to the blind news dealer. Again the puff, the cane, and the bow legs swing into action, as their owner heads for home. Even the taxi men may smile. They know him. He is "the stout feller with the black stick who lives in the red house on Sparks...
Some of the tales that will strike a Western eye: the Bunyanesque vicissitudes of the stout-hearted Ling Ch'ung; the Decameronish deception of Wu the Elder by his wicked wife and the bawdy old woman; the Tattooed Priest, a kind of Friar Tuck of the outlaws; the robbers' rescue of the youth about to be executed. Though some of the incidents would never have passed Queen Victoria (in the 18th Century Shui Hu Chuan was banned in China as "licentious") they are narrated always with polite decency...
Looking for the new president was a harder job than the six camera men of the Metropolitan press had bargained for. Aided and abetted by some of Colonel Apted's stout lieutenants, and disguised in a soft felt hat and a grey overcoat, President Conant slipped away in the twilight, unknown, unobserved, unphotoed. Where a President's son has failed, a full-fledged President has succeeded. That evens the score hereabouts...
...amorous escapades on his South American tour which Her Majesty had picked up from Tabloid Tattler Walter Winchell. "Well, it was a nice moonlight night," stammered the hoofer. "... I remember we got to talking about Havelock Ellis and after that everything is blank." Meanwhile Leslie Adams as a too-stout George V leered, "I'll tell you what, Davy. We'll go to Bali-the Island of Bali-and stir up some good will there." Stiffly London papers reminded their readers that in Great Britain no member of the Royal Family, living or dead, can be portrayed...
...following article on the Harvard Union and its part in the Freshman Year was written for the Crimson by Richard A. Stout '29, retiring Graduate Secretary of the Union and former president of the Crimson. Edward A. Mays '32 is the newly appointed Graduate Secretary...