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...London, England, Representative Ernest W. Gibson of Ver mont, a schoolmate of Calvin Coolidge at Black River Academy in Ludlow, Vt., told the following story last week: "A jackass found its way one night into a classroom on an upper floor of the academy. The long-eared animal didn't like the classical surroundings and played havoc with the desks, tables and books, and roughed the place up generally, to the great displeasure of the Faculty...
...through the maze of the literary market, with all financial short cuts plainly marked, will be drawn for 50 students at the Bread Loaf Conference, branch of Middlebury College (Vt.) summer session, which opened this week. "The interests of creative writing" are chiefly nurtured, say the bulletins. Actually the conference is unique in that it tells what the editors (who sign the checks) want. Long-maned poets, arriving to discover how to make poetry pay, will be told that poetry never pays.* People who "think they would like to write" will find themselves rudely face to face with a pencil...
Between July 20?31: Hartford, Providence, Boston, Portland, Me. ; Concord, N. H.; Springfield, Vt.; Albany, Buffalo, Syracuse...
...Charles Holz, 40, Philadelphia waiter, markedly resembles President Coolidge. Last week Mr. Holz was asked by a Manhattan cinema concern to "double" for the President in film scenes laid in and around Rutland and Plymouth, Vt., Said Mr. Holz: "I will accept, if Mr. Coolidge does not object...
...seized; fines of five dollars per bottle imposed; reprimands administered. Just as the culprits were about to be sent on their way, further search of the car revealed 65 additional bottles hidden in a linen closet. The car was detached from the train; the entire team detained in Richford, Vt...