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...mailmen or postmen, which is highly improper. . . . Frank Crane . . . recently eulogized the Letter Carrier and referred to them as mailmen rather than Letter Carriers. . . . A mighty small thing, yet I believe every Letter Carrier appreciates being referred to as a Letter Carrier. Thanks to TIME for setting a precedent. BURT RITCHEY St. Louis...
...team from the Pennsylvania Military College will be unusually strong, if its early season showing, when it defeated Yale rather handily, is any indication. Three of the members are left from last year's team, and the combination seems to have both experience and power. Alvin M. Burt will play number 1. D. N. Jones number 2, J. Whitehurst number 3 and Elmer Putt back...
...Haven Mich.: Walter Egan Trevett '27 of Cleveland, O.; subscriptions. George Lane Glasheen ocC. of Cambridge; James Rayner Harper '28 of Ottumwa, Ia.; Theodore Nelson Stensland '28 of Chicago; properties, Donald Kuinm Howard '28 of Edgewood Pa.; James Carey Thomas Flexner '29 of New York City: stage, Marvin Fiske Burt '28, of Freeport, Ill.; George Wing Dryer '27 of Birmingham, Ala.; electrical, Murry Nelson Fairbank '28 of Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y.; George Sutro Lowenstein '28 of Brookline; Francis Neilson Rich '29 of West Orange, N. J.; publicity, John Goldsmith Phillips '29 of Muskogee, Okla.; Richard Thomas Sherman...
There in the flesh were men whose names stand for houses: Lippincott, McBride, Dorrance, Burt, Brace (but not Harcourt), job-riding merrily together to Grosset (without Dunlap). There was many another publisher or his trusted lieutenant, like shrewd young George Brett Jr., representing the comparatively vast Macmillan interests. One and all were making a junket out of a serious Washington to appear en masse at public hearings of the Patents Committee of the House of Representatives on a subject close to the hearts of all U.S. authors, song writers, scenarists, printers, librarians, dramatists, actors, librettists and bookbinders whatever, but most...
...Maryland, My Maryland." The chords strode across a half-empty Armory, coming faintly to the ears of a far younger musician, who sat in a chair thickly padded with blankets and thumped dully at another keyboard. These two-Professor Camillo Baucia, "champion marathon pianist of Europe," and B. G. Burt of Jamestown, N. Y., U. S. champion-had been playing continuously for over 52 hours. They had played all the tunes they knew; the pianos were going flat; only 500 people remained in the hall; still they played on. But a doctor had just taken Professor Camillo's temperature...