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...concert all eyes were upon his rugged figure as he sat, with his small, dapper wife, between the President and the Field Marshal. Though urged, he declined to make a speech. Even when Finland's Premier, Dr. Kivimaki, addressing the great audience, presented him with a laurel wreath symbolic of an entire nation's debt, he remained firmly and shyly silent. It was only later, at a banquet given by intimate friends, that he tried to express his gratitude. As he stood up, however, emotion overcame him. Dumbly, the fierce-faced old man clasped his wife...
...faces in the angled brightness of the Arctic sun, build an igloo settlement complete with electric lights on a 9-foot-thick ice floe. (Four scientists have already spent six months of an anticipated year there.) Camera study: chief conqueror Dr. Otto Tulyevitch Schmidt, parka and bosky beard a wreath of icicles. Christmas touch: an antlered reindeer team prancing under the low wing of one of the giant four-motored ANT6 monoplanes...
...Heffelfinger's Football Facts and Heffelfinger's Baseball Facts. He played his last football game (nine minutes for charity) five weeks before his 66th birthday. Last week in Manhattan, at a luncheon of the Touchdown Club, Footballer Heffelfinger's embattled head was crowned with a final wreath. Sportswriter Grantland Rice, Walter Camp's successor as All-America picker, called him "the greatest football player that ever lived." Last week many a band of potential football heroes clashed on U. S. gridirons...
Washington's and Lincoln's birthdays are holidays but Theodore Roosevelt's is Navy Day. Last week Franklin Roosevelt sent a wreath to be placed on Theodore Roosevelt's grave at Oyster Bay, L. I. Celebrations were held at Navy stations over the U. S. In the rain at Washington Navy Yard a party of Marines landed from Anacostia, staged a smoky mock battle with a party of sailors dressed in straw sombreros and checkered shirts to suggest Central American Insurrectos. At Philadelphia Navy Yard visitors clambered over Admiral Dewey's old, grey flagship...
...Edward Mooney, Michigan's Catholic Governor Frank Murphy and Dr. Joseph Anderson Vance of Detroit's First Presbyterian Church, the day was celebrated with high mass, a parade, a banquet, a speech by onetime Governor Chase Salmon Osborn, author of a biography of Father Richard, and a wreath-laying at a statue of the priest which stands before Detroit's city hall...