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...captains), Alan Pennington (Oxford) and Godfrey Brown (Cambridge), for double wins, the Britishers had unbeatable talent on the track except in the hurdles. In the field they boasted a Turk who could shot-put 49 ft., a high-jumper who could clear 6 ft. 3 in., and Frederick Richard Webster, first Briton ever to pole-vault 13 ft., who got-his vaulting tips by corresponding with U. S. experts. At Cambridge, Mass, last fortnight Oxford-Cambridge swept the flat races as anticipated, added a victory in the shot put to beat Harvard-Yale, 7 first places...
Relative your article TIME, June 7 on the word "jalopy" and Webster R. Kent's comments (TIME, June 21), I think you are both in error. Approximately ten years ago while in a Los Angeles café with the late Herbert Somborn, ex-husband of Gloria Swanson, approximately eight mulatto dancing girls appeared. Mr. Somborn exclaimed: "What beautiful jalopies!" Pressing him for information, he stated that a jalopy was anything half black and that the word originated in a certain part of Africa, where plurals are unknown, and a jalopy is a African half black geese...
...WEBSTER R. VAUGHAN...
...flareback to the Gran Chaco war was the jailing last week at La Paz under 80,000,000 bolivianos bail ($6,400,000) of British Munitions Suppliers Anthony Ashton and John W. Webster on charges of having bilked Bolivia...
...July 10 the invaders will have one of their strongest teams on hand. Featured on it are A. G. K. Brown, of Cambridge, a ranking Olympic runner up to 880 yards. Also there are E. B. Tisdale, of Oxford, an outstanding miller, F. R. Webster, a 13-foot pole vaulter, and Ali Irfan, a 49-foot shot putter...