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...Blankenburg, Hollywood athletic club swimmer: The national 220-yard A. A. U. breaststroke championship in Chicago. While the crowd cheered Blankenburg, Johnny Rea, New York athletic club swimmer, beaten in the race, sank with cramps in the middle of the pool, came up, cried for help unheard, sank again. A spectator in dinner clothes, Lawrence Barr, jumped into the water, pulled...
None was more surprised than he when the magazine's circulation equalled "the combined number of any other three monthly publications" in 1839. It reached 25,000 before any other U. S. magazine, by 1860 achieved the unheard of distribution...
...conclusion of his own report as Chairman of the Harvard Fund Council, Joseph R. Hamlen '04, says: "There is no doubt that the Fund is now far better understood than it was this time three years ago. The response is better, more enthusiastic, and adverse criticism is practically unheard of. With patient and continued effort, I am certain that the Fund will soon become as indispensable to Harvard as the Yale Fund, after 39 years, is to Yale...
...name of public morals, Senator Smoot had obtained from the Customs Bureau 40 of the "rawest" foreign volumes which had leaked into the U. S. Excerpts from these he was prepared to read to the Senate as concrete arguments for censorship. He would ask for a secret legislative session, unheard-of since the Senate moved from Philadelphia to Washington. If he did not get it, he would let the Senate blush in public at what he was determined to read to them as samples of "foreign filth...
...program of the Symphony Hall concert introduces two numbers as yet publicly unheard in Boston. A group of three songs by Handel is being performed with orchestra for the first time in the United States. "The Hymn of Jesus", by Gustav Holst, is being executed in public for the first time in Boston. This latter number was sung in Symphony Hall last May during the Radcliffe semi-centennial program, which was not open to the public...