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Coached by Butch Kissell, who used to smack the line for Boston College, the Sailors have flattened two Boston Park League teams so far this season. Their T-formation attack is especially tailored to fit the capabilities of a bruising fullback named Yarborough, formerly of the University of North Carolina, Halfback Arnold is expected to toss most of the passes for the Navy team. Although the Jayvees were undefeated last year, Coach Boston expects that the going will be rougher this season...
...while eel-hipped, coffee-skinned Josephine Baker wriggled with abandon through the scenes of Shuffle Along, an obscure young Negress in the chorus named Catherine Yarborough was saving her subway nickels by trudging from the stage door on 63rd Street to her dingy $3.50-a-week room on 137th Street. Few years later, both women migrated from Broadway to Europe, the racy Josephine to gaudy fame in the Casino de Paris, Catherine Yarborough to drudge over the scores of Aïda and L'Africaine in France and Italy. Some day she meant to return, become the first Negro...
...Chapel Hill, N. C., one Harry Meacham, college student, played bridge, had bad luck. Annoyed, he laid a gun on the table, declared: "I'm going to shoot the next person who deals me a sorry hand." When his turn came he dealt himself a Yarborough,* picked up his pistol, killed himself...
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...refuse to marry her, the fortune goes to her. Knowing not her father's partner, she was amazed to find him a suave, handsome young Jew, not the portly, oppressive person she pictured. Marriage seemed not impossible. But Samuel loved his cousin Rachel, lovely Semite; Lillian loved Captain Yarborough. The solution of these vexing problems is not in the tawdry fashion of Anne Nichols. Though the play be shot with abortive aphorism, it entertains...