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Formal athletics here will come to a complete standstill this summer, but there will be plenty of opportunities for undergraduates to keep in trim for the fall, or just get out in the sunshine and enjoy themselves, the H.A.A. has announced...
...hand to compete for the grand prize of 6,000 francs (about the price of a good pair of shoes). The French aeronaut, Pierre Jacquet, turned up in a natty sports suit and floppy hat with two duck feathers stuck in it. Erich Tilgenkamp, the Swiss entry, looked trim and sharp in his checkered cap, despite an anguished evening spent searching for his balloon, which had somehow got lost in the freight shed of Paris' Gare...
...modern bobby-soxers, her name means next to nothing. But it is sweetly nostalgic news to folks in their forties that a trim, silver-haired, fiftyish, blues singer next week begins a new radio show-her first in twelve years...
...individual . . . cajoled, coerced, intimidated and on many occasions beaten up. . . . The employer's plight has likewise not been happy." The committee blamed the unions, which the Wagner Act had made into a "tyranny more despotic than one could think possible in a free country." Congressmen were resolved to trim down that tyranny. A minority of committeemen protested that the bill would "result in bitter and costly strikes...
...these people living along it are like the free-&-easy, friendly Midwesterners of his books. There were neat, small, wooden houses with Victorian fretwork along the eaves, lace curtains and begonias and geraniums in the windows. The houses and. roads had the same unpainted, unpaved frontier look. The trim wooden fences could have done with Tom Sawyer's or any other system of whitewashing. A lad of about Tom's age came past, dragging his feet on his way to school the way Tom did. He had a 2-ft. birch whittling stick, from which his shiny-bladed...