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...gave Old Ironsides' grumbling sailors no end of trouble. But Hellenistic Commodore Patterson brought his statue safely home, presented it to the flourishing young Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. For more than 40 years it stood in the Academy's courtyard at Tenth and Chestnut Streets under ''the largest hawthorn tree in America...
...Justice of the Supreme Court, has become since Justice Van Devanter's retirement a sort of Super-Senator with a prestige all his own among his colleagues. With this and his new authority as the President's plenipotentiary, he went forth last week to see how many chestnut-Judges he could pull out of the fire-Senate...
Winner of the Sophomore election by 12 votes, Francis Austin Harding, Jr. of Chestnut Hill polled 132 out of 415 votes cast in Monday's Student Council election...
After the champagne came the meeting's muttons. Dictator Mussolini, Son-in- Law Ciano and Baron von Neurath discussed Spain. They agreed that Italian and German troops were failing to pull the Spanish chestnut out of the Radical fire, that Germany and Italy must get out before they themselves are burned. Baron von Neurath, representing the Junker (landed gentry) caste in Germany which has opposed Hitler's determination to go through with the Spanish adventure, was all for an early withdrawal. Mussolini disagreed, suggested that Italy and Germany should make no change until they see the outcome...
Deciding to take up indoor polo, Gabriel ("Frenchy") Loudoux, manager of a Flushing, L. I. riding academy, last autumn bought a small chestnut mare named Nightingale which had had some training in the game. He rarely rented the horse to his customers, keeping her mostly for himself and sometimes letting June Ebdom, a 15-year-old neighbor girl, take her out for exercise. After a few months Horseman Loudoux noticed Nightingale's middle beginning to swell, dismissed it as hay belly, a common winter affliction of horses...