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Rumors circulating about last night, fixed the blame on a group of Graduate School students, who recently successfully managed to remove a machine gun and a ten-foot R.O.T.C. banner at a recent ball, while others attributed the theft to Yale men seeking revenge for the famous Yale fence robbery, or a local organization seeking to enlarge its bell equipment...
...high platform championships last week, her execution of a running one-&-a-half forward somersault (see cut) caused judges to prefer her performance to that of plump Frances Meany, whose sister Helen was diving champion before Georgia Coleman. Georgia Coleman also retained her fancy diving championship from a ten-foot springboard at Long Beach, N. Y. Second was versatile Minnow Rawls...
...April 1915, Sculptor Borglum was invited to Atlanta by the United Daughters of the Confederacy to cut a ten-foot head of Lee in the face of Stone Mountain. Within three days Sculptor Borglum convinced the good ladies of the U. D. C. that what they wanted was no picayune head but a frieze, 1,300 ft. long, 200 ft. high, the biggest stonecutting ever attempted, representing Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, "Stonewall" Jackson, leading the armies of the South. Corporations were formed, the inspired U. D. C. went to work to collect money...
...third-round average in U. S. Opens is 73?a half-stroke less than his second-round average, a stroke less than his first-round average, three strokes less than his fourth-round average. That third morning at Interlachen was a little cooler. Jones started by sinking a ten-foot putt on the first green, played par golf to the fourth where he took the first of six birdies. His gallery, stirred to an intent, incredulous tension, saw that he might have a 66 for the round, but he drove into a trap at the seventeenth and sliced his drive...
...Detroit and St. Louis were under a four-inch coating of winter. Rural roads in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan were impassably choked. The snowfall centred in Chicago where 19.1 inches, a record, swept down in 44 hours, to be twirled up by a 40-mile gale off Lake Michigan into ten-foot drifts...