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...Glasgow at $7.50. Those were remarkably low prices for early in the season. Late in November, prices come down. It is then, just before the grouse season closes and after the rich renters have killed the female and young grouse, and gone away, that the patient Scotsmen go afield. They know that the old cock grouse have been hiding all autumn in the hills, will come down for plentiful feeding, easy killing...
...Yale baseball team, was thrown from a speeding motorboat on Raquette Lake, N. Y. The outboard propeller gashed his left arm. After two blood transfusions two days later the arm was amputated. At Yale a movement started to retain him as baseball captain, with a lieutenant to direct play afield. His teammate Albie Booth, football and basketball captain, who was also a leading candidate for the baseball captaincy, hurried from New Haven to Warren's bedside...
Having demolished, brick by brick, the architectural monstrosities of Yale and fashioned, with some degree of acumen, a literary bludgeon against the social customs of that University, William Harlan Hale, co-editor of The Harkness Hoot has gone farther afield. He has taken Harvard and Princeton, along with Yale, to be his province, and widened his vehicle by means of the columns of the New Republic...
...with drums a beating and colors flying, shouldering, the while, a pair of skis with a careless insouciance, as if to indicate that the loftiest of the White Mountains was but a mere trifle in the life of this hardy Alpinist. But the Vagabond may not go so far afield, and in the latter case a tremendous decision will confront him. Will he go to the Tremont Temple to have his soul saved by Billy Sunday, or to the Tremont Theatre and laugh with and at Charlie Chaplin. Both propositions sound almost equally alluring; the decision is fraught with moment...
...pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Producer Jed Harris revived Revizor under its English title last week because its theme, Graft, is still notoriously alive in the U. S., whatever may have become of it among the enlightened Soviets. The play soon closed, but Manhattanites had to look no further afield than their own judiciary and police department (TIME, Aug. 25, Dec. 29) to discover a parallel to Gogol's situation: A foppish pipsqueak from St. Petersburg, stranded penniless at a village inn, was mistaken for a tsarist inspector whose coming has been announced and for whom the rascally village officials-mayor...