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...Navy Department's "Magruder" was plain-spoken Rear Admiral Thomas Pickett Magruder who commands only the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The War Department's "Magruder" was really a "Super-Magruder" because he was Major General Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff, and topmost soldier of them all. Touring the West to inspect Army stations, General Summerall last week stood up before the San Diego (Calif.) Chamber of Commerce and said: "The housing situation of the Army is a disgrace! Men are living in quarters at Camp Hearn like workers in a logging camp. The same condition prevails at other...
...mortality has been heaviest among the hitters of the topmost flight, G. E. Donaghy '29 found the pitchers of Providence and the Alumni a puzzle, and fell from 420 to 358 in the past week, surrendering the team leadership to Henry Chauncey '28, who hit hard to raise his figure from an even 400 to 420. William Ullman '28 is another who found the opposing deliveries hard to fathom, and dropped from his third place ranking, with 348, to seventh among the regulars, with a mark...
Reading in TIME, March 7, under EDUCATION the account of that Oxford "Rag" which was the most successful and which resulted in the rather unassailable installation of a common porcelain toilet article upon the topmost pinnacle of a memorial spire, I was immediately struck with the thought that this article in porcelain would be most brittle, and a righteous and easy target for the authorities as well as a tempting one for anybody else, and therefore most certainly not out of reach as your narrative would have...
...Oxford "rags" none was ever more successful than the occasion upon which an expert undergraduate steeplejack poised, upon the topmost pinnacle of a memorial spire, far beyond the reach of troglodytic municipal navvies, a common porcelain toilet article...
...successful Lhasa expedition of 1923 attracted attention all over the world. After crossing snow-blocked passes higher than the topmost summits of the Alps continually in danger from the fanatical Tibetian monks, who put to death all strangers. McGovern, disguised as a Tibetian coolie, succeeded in reaching the capitol. Thus Dr. McGovern, a young man still under 30, surmounted the obstacles in this most hazardous undertaking, in which many of his distinguished professors had failed...