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...Woodrow Wilson made him solicitor to the Department of the Interior. Warren Gamaliel Harding made him attorney to the U. S. Railroad Administration. Then he became director of the I. C. C.'s finance bureau. At Kingfisher College (Okla.), when he was graduated in 1905, he was a stout footballer. A Rhodes scholarship and St. John's College, Oxford, brushed up his rough spots. Last week he was happy to receive the approval of President Hoover, many a politician, many a shipper...
...sportsman's life is inevitably connected with risk. Often it is the risk itself that makes the particular event attractive to stout hearted men. But a true lover of the game is never fool-hardy, he never invites that risk. When mere chance then converts hard play into a fatal injury men pause to praise the play that cost him life and damn the fate that robbed...
...Stout Irene Schoellkopf-Carman, fiftyish, wealthy onetime wife of the late Frank Barrett Carman and of Buffalo's millionaire C. P. Hugo Schoellkopf, was sued for $100,000 by one Courtland Erwin Conkwright, 27, handsome life guard at Long Beach, L. I. He claimed she lured him from his job to be her "secretary" at $5,000 a week, bought him a $600 wardrobe, a $3,000 car. Soon her interest waned, her Long Island home was closed to him. He asked 20 weeks...
...soprano roles in Gilbert & Sullivan operettas are most effective when sung by small, arch, comely ladies. The contralto roles demand singers made up to look stout and ugly. Katisha in The Mikado, in particular, should be "a most unattractive old thing, tra la, with a caricature of a face." For this role last week the brothers Lee & Jake Shubert signed up oldtime Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink, 70. With a company of seasoned Savoyards, the Shuberts' Mikado opens Oct. 16 in Wilmington, Del., will play in Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and other Eastern cities...
Those who are unused to the ways of tools are awkward in their handling. The physical plant of a college constitutes its tools and time and instruction obviate awkwardness in the employment of the implements of learning. A willing enough mind and a stout heart are the fundamental prerequisites of apprentices in the business of making Harvard...