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...highest price for anything was paid at the Ryan auction by canny Lord Duveen of Millbank who bid $102,500 for a marble bust of a Princess of Aragon by Francesco Laurana, 15th Century Florentine. Highest literary item was Francis Scott Key's manuscript of "The Star Spangled Banner," sold for $24,000 to Dr. Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach as agent for Baltimore's Walters Art Gallery. Anders Zorn's The Toast, of which exist only 75 impressions, was the most expensive etching...
...Green has two more games to play this season and must take both to win the banner. The way they've been going lately they stand a very good chance of doing this. They were very impressive last Saturday both in the field and at the plate. Their stick work ranks second in the League, at a team average of 272. Harvard's team batting is 255. Bill Clark, Dartmouth's catcher. leads the League with an individual record...
...Caffery left the front door of his Embassy in Havana and walked down the street in his cutaway and high hat-nonchalantly as became a diplomat. He proceeded straight to the door of the Presidential Palace where, as he arrived, a band on the terrace played "The Star Spangled Banner" and "El himno bayames." Marching inside while the guns of Cabanas Fortress across the bay boomed a 21-gun salute, he received profuse protestations of pleasure from President Carlos Mendieta y Montefur. There was bravery in Ambassador Caffery's walk from the Embassy because he had no certainty that...
...last week. Then everybody fidgeted, waiting for President Roosevelt. Finally after 15 minutes he drove up in a touring car whose narrow tonneau he, his full-sized wife and New York's roly-poly mayor LaGuardia more than filled. The ship's band played "The Star Spangled Banner" and the President rode down the Hudson through the narrows and out of New York Harbor for his first review of the U. S. Fleet...
...next 10 days Harvard has four Leagne baseball games to play. If the Mitchellmen take all four, they win the League pennant with a record of eight victories, three defeats, and one tie; if they drop one, Columbia nabs the banner. It's the 1934 Varsity's last chance to come out on top, and right now it's a fairly good...