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Royal Bruce Burnett ocC., of Waco, Texas, was elected captain of the University polo team last night to take the place of W. H. White '29, regular captain. White was operated on for appendicitis last month and will be unable to play for the rest of the season...
...Thirty years ago I opened an office at Waco, when horned toads were so plentiful that boys were selling them for five cents each. I conceived the idea of mounting a few of the larger specimens and using them for pen racks...
President Baylor University Waco, Texas...
Sirs: Your Waco, Tex., man, who squirts a jet of poison gas at Tom Johnson and Newton D. Baker, two really great men, brings to mind a little poem, towit: "A little dog barked at the big red moon That smiled in the evening sky. The neighbors smote him with rocks and shoon- But still he continued his ragful tune. And he barked 'till his throat was dry. But, soon 'neath the hill that obstructed the west, The moon sank out of sight; And the little dog said, as he laid down to rest, "Well, I scared...
Sirs : In connection with the mention of ex-Secretary of War Newton D. Baker as presidential timber, Mr. C. B. Bratton, Waco, Tex., writes (TiME, Letters, Dec. 5) : "No man that ever held a commission in the A. E. F. would vote for him." Mr. Bratton does not know all officers who were in Europe ! Mr. Bratton does not know one-tenth - not one one-hundredth of the officers who were in Europe ! Mr. Bratton does not know anything about the voting inclinations of any of the officers who were in Europe, except, perhaps, the comparatively infinitesimal few whom...