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...first two years saw Crimson defeats, 12 to 7, and 14 to 0. Finally, in 1928 after five barren years, Harvard came into its own, breaking the drought by laterals executed by the Dave Guarnaccia-Art French combine. The year of the depression saw Albie Booth's strip tease as the "mighty mite" stormed onto the field unsuccessfully to attempt a field goal. Harvard won 10 to 6. Barry Wood and Captain Ben Ticknor made it three straight for the Crimson in 1930 with a 13 to 0 victory...
...Albie Booth...
Along with the usual standbys of a fan magazine (reviews, gossip, puffs), Stage will present each month words and music of a new song, full text of a current Broadway show. November's play: The Man Who Came To Dinner. Regular contributors are Alexander Woollcott, Clare Booth, William Saroyan...
...those days small-town life was a popular literary theme, with two schools of approach. One stemmed from mellow Hoosier Poet James Whitcomb Riley, was ripest in the folksy novels of Hoosier Booth Tarkington. The other stemmed from the Spoon River Anthology by an Illinois lawyer and politician, Edgar Lee Masters. The ripest work of this school is Sherwood Anderson's. His meandering, mystical tales present the U. S. small town as a dimpling surface above dark fathoms of frustrated desires. He wrote of a typical female in Winesburg, Ohio: "At night she dreamed that he had bitten into...
Died. General Ballington Booth, 83, founder of Volunteers of America, brother of Salvation Army's famed General Evangeline Booth; after long illness; in Blue Point...