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...Last week the crew of a switch engine in Kansas City stated they had seen the plane brush a grain elevator with its wingtip soon after the takeoff. They said that three days later they found a dent on the fire escape of the elevator, about where the wing was supposed to have struck...
...Bridge, in London on July 18, will make a tour of Continental cinderpaths. Announcement was made yesterday that the governing sports-bodies of Sweden, Germany, Norway, and Denmark, have tendered an invitation through the Amateur Athletic Union to the American track forces to compete on the Continent following their brush with the Light and Dark Blue...
Owners who had scratched their horses were not sorry about it as they watched the field go round the four-mile 22-jump course on Charles L. A. Reiser's farm. It is no course for a brush horse; these are true U. S. fences, the hazards of a nation of timber-jumpers. It was boggy in the standing land and treacherous in the hollow. Bunching himself for a takeoff, Hubar slipped and his front legs crashed into one of those top rails no horse can take out and stay on his feet. Now Davis was taking...
What is Larry to do? He has been the chief agitator in the community for expelling from the white school the children of a family who have just been found to be touched with the tar brush. For Larry, for his friends the moonshiner and the sheriff and even the hardshell preacher, a drop of Negro blood, no matter how diluted, makes a person a Negro. Vainly the patrician doctor explains that Ruth's father and grandfather were considered -white, that Ruth never knew she was a hybrid, a "brass ankle." But good-natured, inarticulate Larry has nothing to depend...
Miss Walker speaks next Wednesday afternoon on "The Other Side of the Canvas" and during the talk will work from a model with palette and brush...