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...been working out in the open air for one or two weeks already, Harvard's nine has necessarily been confined to work in the cage because of inclement weather conditions. The first game is only a week from tomorrow, however, and although Coach Fred Mitchell doesn't have to trot out a whirlwind aggregation on that date he will have to send out an array of batters and fielders that should at least take Boston University's diamond forces into camp. The real tuning up process will come a few days later when about 25 men will be playing...
Editorship. When Edward Bok went to the Ladies' Home Journal in 1889, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis knew he had hired a crusading editor. Once he enlisted the aid of Dancers Vernon & Irene Castle to help stamp out the pernicious tango, turkey trot, bunny hug, supplanting them with the more sedate polka, gavotte and schottische. Evangelically he tried to keep drinking scenes from the fiction of his publication. He engaged a doctor to give advice to young mothers through the pages of the Journal. Some 90,000 babies were said to have been thus magazine-reared. Of his trials and triumphs...
...other Greeks, of Near Easterners, of Balkanese. Their children did likewise. The apparent rarity of tetrapodisis in the U. S., he decided, was because in cities and modern homes the movements of young children are very much restricted. In his opinion the U. S. child has no room to trot like a little bear between the time when it crawls like a big frog and the time when it walks like a little...
Yale's 1929 eleven will trot out on to the Stadium turf this afternoon a slight favorite over Captain Barrett's Crimson-jerseyed gridiron cohorts. The basis for the Eli's supposed superiority is rather a comparison of previous records than any firm conviction among Yale rooters that the New Haven contingent is actually much stronger than the Cambridge outfit...
...latest Victor release is numbered 22149. One old record bears the title. "That Baboon Baby Dance." The assumption is that it was released about the time that the evolutionary theory was becoming well known. Another disk reveals the fact that at one time in the past the Turkey Trot was all the rage, if one is to trust the number of them recorded by old time orchestras...