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Messrs. Thompson, Litsinger and Dr. John Dill Robertson are battling for the Republican nomination for Mayor. One of Mr. Thompson's campaign tricks is to reveal at political meetings a bird cage containing two housebroken rats. He calls them "Dill" and "Fred," in honor of Dr. Robertson and Fred Lundin. "What the hell do I care for Lundin? He's a dirty rat!" cried Candidate Thompson. "He is grooming this other rat, Robertson. He's the scum of the earth." It will be remembered that "Rat" Lundin helped make Mr. Thompson Mayor of Chicago many years...
Tomorrow afternoon at 3.30 in the same place, Mme Galli Curel will sing some beautiful seventeenth and eighteenth century songs from the French and Italian, airs from Mozart's "Figaro" and a number of other very interesting selections, prominent among which is Benedict's "Gipsy and the Bird", for which there will be a flute obligate...
...Committee voted to accord, without prejudice for the future, the insignia "HGC" to the following members of the Harvard Gun Club for their meritorious performance against Yale: Captain G. P. Day '27, J. R. Bird '29, W. S. Carroll '29, R. H. Dorr '29, Guernsev Curran Jr. '29, S. F. Ayers...
...Emerson Whithorne's "Aeroplane," a tonal attempt at flight which taxied furiously without quite getting off the ground; III. Frederich Shepherd Converse's "Elegia Poem," from the melody of an old Negro slave song; finally two foreign compositions as a sop: the Mozart G Minor and Stravinsky's Fire Bird...
...BIRDS-Diary of an Unknown Aviator-Doran ($3.50).* A glossy finish is not among this chronicle's properties. Not for effect but for grim, humorous, human record, and probably for relief, did the author set down in airmen's vernacular daily events and sensations from the day he sailed from Halifax to the eve of his death behind Germany's lines. Nor is it a philosopher's diary, but the blunt journal of a rather tough, inarticulate "war bird." He "laughs off" the emotion stirred in him by a full moon at sea, by guessing...