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Round, loquacious, genial, with big muscles, a fine anecdotal memory, a hearty appetite and a short deep scar? in his cheek, Manager Robinson, 66, has worked at baseball every summer for 50 years. He caught for the Baltimore "Orioles" when John McGraw played for them. Once a pitched ball broke one of his fingers, left it hanging by a thread of skin...
Before him, crowded cheek to jowl, sat whites and blacks, men and women, boys and girls, for the "Live-at-Home" movement included Negroes. Newsmen remarked with astonishment upon the sudden evaporation of race prejudice. Negroes spoke from the same rostrum as Governor Gardner about the "recovery of their race's self-respect." Declared Governor Gardner...
Then Scholar Price recalled how in Charles Dickens' Pickwick Papers the famed Club was hoaxed. Samuel Pickwick unearthed a stone, found the inscription,"X BILST U M PSHI S.M. ARK." Much erudite discussion ensued, many translations were given. Tongue-in-cheek Author Dickens was guying scientific men. The translation was simply "Bil Stumps his mark...
...designer and R. W. Straus '31 is the builder of the scenery for the play in accordance with the Club's policy of being a strictly student organization, these members have provided three sets, a luxurious living room, a press office and a realistic court room. Leslie Cheek '31 is the creator of the posters that are now appearing around the Square...
Jean Patou, Paris couturier, sailing home after a U. S. junket, told reporters that he had been kicked in the shin by a Manhattan debutante while dancing. Said he: "I would laugh at the cheek-against-cheek, the eyes-half-closed and the lower-part-of-the-body-trailing manner of dancing if it were not for its alarming public danger. The girl who kicked me - she retained a comic expression of rapture. The effect, I would say, was at least bad on the eyes." Of other U. S. mores said he: "Those blood-red fingernails are awful. Blood...