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...prize is Capt. Charles Baker of Pasadena, who used to pilot a river boat from Shanghai up through the Yangtze rapids. In January he ran aground in Hupeh Province, somewhere near Kienli District which has a "Communist" bandit government. The Kienli bandits ferried Capt. Baker ashore, a most-valuable bit of salvage, and held him for ransom. Capt. Baker's friends promptly paid. This seemed so easy, the bandits of Kienli kept the money and the Captain, dangled their bait again & again. On one occasion the productive Captain was sent out into the middle of a river while...
...help the "Block-Aid" campaign to help New York's needy. Excerpt: "We have reached a point where the aid of governments or the gifts of individuals, no matter how generous, are insufficient to meet the conditions which have come upon us. So we must all do our bit. . . ."- While Banker Morgan spoke, his butlers Physick and Biles listened at a receiver in a back room. No photographs of the event were permitted. Employes of Publisher "William Randolph Hearst made and circulated a composite picture (see cut) showing Banker Morgan without glasses. dressed in a business suit, with hands...
...carburetor" with which the ship is equipped. When the youth gets back home he is, of course, a national hero. He lunches with the President, is made a colonel in the reserve flying corps and runs into a rich and comely lion-hunter (Catherine Dale Owen), not a bit like Anne Morrow. It looks for a time as though the valiant aeronaut were guilty of treachery to the girl back home, who had sacrificed some property to finance the exploit. But in the end-you've guessed it-he renounces "the hero racket" over the radio, returns quite chastened...
...present this trophy not necessarily to the best player, nor again to the hardest worker, but to the player who best exemplifies John Tudor's qualities. He was an athlete who came through in the pinches, rose to his best in the big games and gave just a little bit more than it was thought he could give...
...been spoken, "Lamb" Heyniger, divested of his dinner coat, jumped upon a table in the middle of the huge ballroom and called for three stanzas of "Old Nassau." The first stanza went finely, but along in the middle of the second-at that place where there is always a bit of uncertainty as to whether our hearts are to be thrilled with all her power, or whether our breaths we are to draw-there was a perceptible diminution of volume. Glancing about us we noticed a few of our most loyal fellow-Princetonians frankly at sea as to the words...