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...State College, Pa., green skull caps bobbed hither and thither through the streets. Pennsylvania State University had opened...
...much-heralded polo match. Several times that crowd was seen to rise hesitatingly as a succession of young men wearing clothes a la Renfrew arrived. His arrival was unmistakable; the vast hordes of photographers gathered at the main entrance to the field suddenly went "mad dog", scampered hither and thither, stopped, snapped and retired. Cheers and handclaps were absent, but most of the spectators strained their necks. All present were impressed with the Baron's good sportsmanship. He smiled throughout the game, despite the fact that the British were losing. ¶Next day, lunch with Harrison Williams, a motorboat...
...Easthampton, L. I. Recalling how those Greenwich hills had seen him larrupped by Dexter Cummings in the Intercollegiate Final (TIME, July 7) Taft larrupped Mapes. Women. The long tiled porch of Shenecossett Country Club, at New London, Conn., was all a-titter and aflutter with 175 women, flocked thither for one of the season's larger invitation tournaments. Sober and serious, young Glenna Collett...
Under an imported ceiling depicting the more unprintable scenes from Ovid, she held "salons" in Old World style-and thither flocked celebrities American and European. She hired a lion from Bostock Circus, took it home for a pet. She mastered jiu jitsu, and many a corpulent matron strove to do likewise to keep up. She admired Sandow, famed strong man, and sat unconcernedly in ' box to see Jim Corbett, at a time when such behavior was, for a lady, unheard of. She hired Paderewski on one occasion, distributing tickets to all who wished to hear him. She sponsored...
...Arab. The locale of The Arab is Northern Africa and thither Rex Ingram moved his company. In view of this effort one is somewhat disappointed not to find a more unusual picture...