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Sebastiani Rondi is a Sicilian lawyer, a resident of Palermo, where the lemons come from. Maurice Maeterlinck* is a Belgian poet, whose symbol is The Blue Bird, and whose greatest work is The Life of the Bee. The poet took a trip through Sicily a short time ago and then wrote about it. Avvocato Rondi read Maeterlinck's opinion of Rondi's home town. Result: Rondi challenged the poet to a duello...
...Jerome Bonaparate of Manhattan; once to a millionaire said to be Harry F. Sinclair. Last week, Ulysses Grant-Smith (TIME, Dec. 24), American Minister at Tirana, announced that a wandering millionaire strolled into his office to see if that there king job was still open to a live bird with plenty of dough...
...struck the plane, it is probable that no damage would have resulted-except to the geese. But the propeller of a Liberty motor revolves at 1,600 revolutions per minute-so rapidly that a point on the blade may travel at 500 miles an hour. The impact of a bird at such speed would be terrific, and the propeller being already strained to a high point by centrifugal force, would burst into a dozen pieces; this might cut wires and cause dire wreckage, if not complete collapse of the plane...
...indignant that such a prize has been offered, and hope that the people of Maine will not participate in the contest. The statement is made that 7,000 people, including women and children, are soon to begin the bird destruction...
...talk on the history and aims of the Lampoon by B. McK. Henry '24, jazz by J. H. Wright '25 and his Lampoon orchestra, songs by R. P. Bullard '24 and B. S. Cogan '23, the bed time story by Robert E. Sumner '25, some English humor by John Bird '24, and facts about the St. Nicholas number of the Lampoon...