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...name on the cover there is little to distinguish Eye Opener from Whiz Bang. Most jokes and pictures in the July and August issues are based on: 1) girl walking home from automobile ride; 2) burglar under old maid's bed; 3) husband surprising wife with male visitor; 4) iceman (plumber, repairman) and complaisant housewife...
...chuckled at an example of Ivar Kreuger's shrewdness which auditors stumbled upon in his private office. On the desk was a concealed button which could be pressed by "accidentally" moving a book with his elbow. It caused a dummy telephone to ring. Herr Kreuger could then ask his visitor to leave or could impress him with imaginary conversations with great bankers and statesmen...
...longer a member or a visitor to the Explorers Club is Dr. Frederick Albert Cook, from whose Arctic Club the Explorers Club evolved.* A venerable member is Major General Adolphus Washington Greely, 88, whose expedition to set up a U. S. meteorological base for the first (1881) Polar Year was lost and, save for seven men, destroyed by the Arctic...
...Colby. The game was characterized by the decisive character of the scores made by players on each side. A feature of the match was the long struggle between G. P. Webber '33 of Harvard, and Taylor of Colby, ending in a 7-5, 12-10 victory for the visitor...
...procedure of befuddling a speak-easy visitor and inducing him to sign checks, often raised later, is known in the underworld as "giving him the circus." Circus victims, part of whose money goes to the taxicab driver who steers them to the evil retreat, are usually so ashamed of themselves afterward that they fail to report to the police. This racket, Police Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney told the New York Bond Club two months ago, is one which the police are particularly anxious to stamp out. His speech did not fall on entirely deaf ears. Last week one New Yorker...