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...Shucco in ten rounds at the Boston Garden Friday night, the Squire of Chestnut Hill was inclined yesterday to look favorably through a slightly puffed eye at his ring future. "I proved to my own satisfaction that I am in better shape than when I were the crown -- a bit slower, but in better all round condition...
...years, has a hog ranch in Kansas. Until recently, he also taught English history and mathematics at St. Mary's College in Kansas. Umpire Charles Moran was football coach at Centre College, developed famed "Bo" McMillin. Umpire "Beans" Reardon, famed for his raucous voice, is a Hollywood bit-part actor. Umpire George Barr is professor of umpiring at the Doan School of Baseball at Hot Springs, Ark. Umpire Bill Klem, dean of his profession at 62 and long past the length of service at which National League umpires are eligible for a $2,000 yearly pension, does nothing...
RETURN TO PHILOSOPHY - C. E. M. Joad- Dutton ($2.50). A University of London professor does his burly British bit to disabuse amateur philosophers of the notion that there are two sides to a question. Good reading for Tories. WHERE LIFE IS BETTER - James Rorty - John Day-Reynal & Hitchcock ($3). Report of "An unsentimental American journey" across the U. S., an attack on optimistic illusions. Title: satiric. STONEWALL JACKSON- G. F. R. Henderson, C. B. - Longmans, Green ($5). Reprint of the famed standard biography long used as a text in the British War College and at West Point...
Thence, I out to the Court, and very pretty it be in the snow, and along the River to watch the skating but saw no bit of beauty there; so I back to the Tower to read Kant, and by and by to bed. But Lord! How cold the sheets...
...another in the mountains and over the lakes of Canada. It has deepchested Nelson Eddy singing his love to Jeanette McDonald, and Jeanette responding, somewhat coyly, but with all her heart. This is ample recommendation for any eighty minutes' entertainment, and it should send you packing off for a bit of musical ecstasy. For to the untrained ear at least, both of their throats sound golden, and the recording, equally flawless...