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John W. Davis of Brooklyn, N.Y., was elected captain of the Princeton football team for next year at a meeting held here today of all men who participated in either the Harvard or Yale games this fall...
Davis entered Princeton from the Polytechnic Preparatory School of Brooklyn. He is no relation to the Democratic presidential nominee...
...crass indeed-will recognize that his painting may some day amaze the world. Thus every U. S. home has its potential Mozart. But a year ago, to a startled public, was revealed the most extraordinary prodigy of them all-Nathalia Crane, 11-year-old poet, "The Baby Browning of Brooklyn," whose first volume of verse, The Janitor's Boy, was heralded by critics to be a work of genius...
...Brooklyn rushed reporters. They interviewed the prodigy-a spindling girl of twelve, physically immature, with solemn eyes, a quick tongue, a shrill treble voice. Her father explained how inspiration comes...