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...world's most potent warship, Britain's famed Hood, was ordered to Balearic waters last week, ordered this week to Barcelona to investigate the sinking of a British tramp steamer by an airplane which the London Daily Herald insisted bore marks showing that its bomber pilot was Bruno Mussolini...
...pictures bore no resemblance to the popular caricature of child prodigies with spectacles and top-heavy craniums. More handsome than the average, Speyer's merry-faced youngsters were shown running and laughing like the perennially peptic urchins in magazine advertisements. Only their activities were unusual-playing chess, repairing engines, writing poetry, composing music, reading heavy volumes...
...Review team the work of James Heldt 2L stood out. "Big Jim" was a former All-Big-Six tackle for the University of Nebraska and was mentioned for All-American. Nathan Halpern 2L and Charles Feibleman 3L bore the ball-carrying burden for the magazine...
...said McCray, "the atmosphere that pervaded all around was one surprisingly free of sincere apprehension, if what I thought I felt really bore out the true stimulus-individual-reaction sequence so well know to those of scientific bent. For fundamentally the Harvard-Dartmouth relationship is one of true sportsmanship, of the highest ideals, and of the utmost good faith...
Concertmaster, that necessarily capable violinist who sits near the conductor, acts as his working assistant, is Mischa Mischakoff, onetime concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony, founder of a string quartet which for twelve years bore his name, owner of a $50,000 Stradivarius. The rest of the orchestra is well up to his high...