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Ralph D. Paine, whose new novel "Four Bells" has already gone into its fourth printing, has just returned from the Indian Ocean and the African Coast, where he played golf on some remote courses. One of his yarns concerns a country club at Nairobi. Among the trophies on the walls is a stuffed head of a zebra. It seems that a foursome, starting out after an early breakfast, encountered a lion on the third green, where it had just made its kill. One of the players went back to the clubhouse for a rifle, and potted the lion. The head...
Most of the leading centres of population show larger amounts this March than for the same month last year; leading examples are Boston, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Greater New York, Memphis, Dallas, Cleveland, Detroit, Milwaukee and practically all the Pacific Coast cities. Yet many large cities, notably Chicago, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Indianapolis and smaller Western and Southern centres, show a decrease compared...
Geography means nothing to a New Englander. As far as he is concerned, Idaho may or may not be on the Pacific coast, and Wisconsin may be north of Michigan, or again it may not. So apparently in the choice of an Attorney General, other considerations weighed more with President Coolidge than that the man should be a Westerner and ? Progressive...
Telegraphic report was received here last night that the University rifle team had lost to the University of California by the score of 923 to 938 in the last dual meet of the season. The California team has just recently won the championship of the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate League...
Under the circumstances, Harvard became liberal. The Gold Coast was reclaimed from river swamp and turned over to the newspapers, the Pudding branched out into mock trials, rowdy burlesques of classics now no better remembered than-their parodies, ultimately into musical skits (see Owen Wister) and so by the laws of gravity...