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William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, also spoke, and said that he expected the present "three-presidents agreement" will go down as a contribution to intercollegiate athletics. "The tramp athlete has gone," he said. "He doesn't exist in these three institutions. I am sure that the three colleges are playing the game according to the rules. But the starting date for practice should be changed. It should vary with the date the season ends." He expressed the belief that some adjustment would be made shortly...
...somewhat scrambled A Cargo of Parrots, by a pseudonymous English writer 25 years resident in Africa. Central character of the book is a remarkable native servant named Ramazini, whose dying German bwana (master) instructs him to deliver a collection of parrots to London. Against the sadistic treatment of a tramp steamer's first officer, Ramazini opposes first his extraordinary dignity, finally a lethal iron bar. Loving Memory, most ambitious, least successful of the five, is the story of a London newspaperman who discovers in his dead wife's diary after ten years of ostensibly happy marriage, a clashing...
Harry March once liked football go much that he sample under assumed names at four schools, Ohio State, Oberlin, Kenyen College, and Mount Union College. He gave his first name at Columbian (now George Washington University) and took and M.D. in 1901. Unlike many tramp football stars, Dr. March had a sharp and restless mind. He established a good medical practice, but kept his thoughts in the pigskin world by writing sport stories. The idea of writing he received for Authors Channing Pollack and Don Marquis, his Columbia roommates...
Cinemactor Charles Spencer Chaplin announced he would discard his famed tramp makeup, and in his next self-produced picture, in which he will star with Wife Paulette Goddard, he will play a "straight" comic role without costume, will talk on the screen for the first time. He would not tell anyone about the story, said only that it would be ready in "a year-perhaps...
...Arbeitsdienst-Nazi compulsory labor battalions. Forty thousand lads in rough khaki, 3,000 stripped to the waist, goose stepped past the Realmleader, mirrored thousands of times on the silver-blue spades they carried on their shoulders. Most beautiful: 22,000 alternate Nazi ranks, carrying flaming torches, wending their slow tramp along the search-lit walls of the turreted medieval city. Most spectacular: 140,000 brown-uniformed Storm Troopers lined up column upon column on the Zeppelin Meadow. Flanked along the sides of the floodlit arena crammed 250,000 spectators. With trumpets blaring, the Fuhrer mounted the platform, stood with chin...